A school in Buda, Texas has decided to ban the Confederate flag from district property and events that are district-sponsored.
The ban came after two students were accused of urinating on the door of a black teacher's classroom and writing racial slurs on her door in May.
The Associated Press reported that the board members voted on the ban and it came out to a 5-3 vote to amend the student code of conduct to ban the flag. It used to be displayed with the Hays High School Rebel mascot. The ban also includes banning any imagery that is "deemed to be racially hostile, offensive or intolerant."
Dixie State College of Utah has also recently banned the flag. also removed a statue that depicts two Confederate soldiers, with one of them holding up a confederate flag, reports The Daily Mail.
The confederate flag has also recently been banned at schools in Dolores, Texas. It happened after a hate crime at the school. School District Superintendant said according to the Cortez Journal, "Hate crimes are defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability, and will not be tolerated. I want everyone to feel safe in our schools."
The flag is a controversial image. The Daily Mail reports that many Southern states see the flag as a point of pride and history while many northern states believe it to be a symbol of slavery and the Civil War which left many people dead. The confederate flag was at one time a symbol of the Confederate States of America or the losing party in the Civil War. Slavery was an underlying cause of the Civil War.
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