Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in September 2017.<\/p>\n
A California high school stirred up controversy after students were told not to chant \u201cUSA\u201d during sporting events and rallies.<\/p>\n
Students at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom, California, often chanted \u201cUSA\u201d as a way to show pride during games and rallies. Now, school officials have asked that the students not chant, as it could come across as intolerant.<\/p>\n
Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in September 2017.<\/p>\n
A California high school stirred up controversy after students were told not to chant \u201cUSA\u201d during sporting events and rallies.<\/p>\n
Students at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom, California, often chanted \u201cUSA\u201d as a way to show pride during games and rallies. Now, school officials have asked that the students not chant, as it could come across as intolerant.<\/p>\n
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Daniel Thigpen, the Folsom Cordova Unified Communications Director, said, \u201cTo practice empathy, to practice kindness and to practice patriotism. You can do both.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in September 2017. A California high school stirred up controversy after students were told not to chant \u201cUSA\u201d during sporting events and rallies. Students at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom, California, often chanted \u201cUSA\u201d as a way to show pride during games…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzzflash1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}