Re: Here's a thing
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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If it was on a flagpole or stick then like I said it should have been placed in a classroom ready for whatever project it was for and not being carried around because a) politics, b) health and safety. We don't even know whether it was anything to do with a project or just brought in to show friends. Until Rhian tells us more we can only make up different scenarios to try to understand the behaviours and cultures at this school. It's what people do when they are given partial information. We fill in the blanks.
Yep. Hence why it seems a bit unkind to assume the girl with the flag had been doing anything wrong and that teachers were at fault in letting her carry it.
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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It's part of our deciding who is in the wrong here, so perfectly appropriate to try to understand the policy of having the flag in the possession of pupils during break and how that contributed to subsequent fracas.
The only known breeches of acceptable behaviour are that of the lad and subsequently a girl
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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I wasn't under the impression from the OP that whoever delivered the punch was holding the flag to start with. On my moral compass physical violence is a tad higher up the notch of moral badness than flag desecration.
Yep. It's the apparant self control of the lad to not retaliate which is the main focal point. The flag has nothing to to with it.