Schools sends 20 students home for Confederate flag clothing

Thursday, September 17, 2015
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (WLS) -- A school sent twenty kids home, for refusing to remove clothing that featured Confederate flags.

They were protesting a new policy banning vehicles with the confederate flag at their school in Christiansburg, Va.
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After getting kicked out of school, the students went across the street to continue the protest.

Some of them received three days of out-of-school suspension, others received one day.
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