Georgia school put in lockdown after student brings in Confederate flag
Three students were suspended from a Georgia school after one of them brought a Confederate battle flag.
Three students were suspended from a Georgia school after one of them brought a Confederate battle flag.
On Wednesday morning, a 10th grader was dropped off to school with the flag attached to his backpack. “He got dropped off out of his truck and came down the sidewalk just like any other student does,” said Principal Wesley Cupp of Rockmart High School.
The sophomore student walked through the cafeteria and was out in the courtyard before classes when two other students, who were African-American, confronted him about the flag.
“They wanted to confront him about what he had on his back pack. What did they say? Hey man why you doing that,” said Cupp.
The student exchanged words, and there was some shoving, but the situation did not get out of hand, according to Cupp, because school staff stepped in.
However, later in the day, rumors began to circulate that other students had brought flags with them. That’s when school administrators decided to put the school on lockdown, just to be safe.
“We just did that as a precautionary situation to help maintain and control what could have been a bad situation,” said Cupp.
The three students involved in the slight altercation at the beginning of the school day were suspended for disruption.
