Native American student can wear eagle feather at graduation after deal with California school

[rug]

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press
June 3, 2015 — 9:00am

SAN FRANCISCO — A Native American student who sued his California school district because it refused to let him wear an eagle feather to his high school graduation will be able to wear the sacred item after all.

Attorneys for Christian Titman and officials with Clovis Unified School District reached an agreement Tuesday night that allows him to wear the feather, said Rebecca Farmer, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, one of the groups representing Titman. She provided no other details.

Earlier Tuesday, a judge suggested the two parties try to reach a resolution after the student's lawyers argued in court that Titman's rights to freedom of expression and religion under the state constitution were being violated.

Titman, 18, a member of the Pit River Tribe, said he wants to attach the 5-inch feather he received from his father to the tassel on his cap at the Clovis High School ceremony set for Thursday about 10 miles northeast of Fresno.

http://www.startribune.com/calif-student-gets-ok-to-wear-eagle-feather-at-graduation/305944781/

https://www.aclunc.org/news/native-american-student-challenges-ban-ceremonial-feathers-during-graduation

[nichomachus]

1. WTF

Would they stop an observant Jewish student from wearing a yarmulke or a Muslim female student from wearing a hijab? Idiots.

[rug]

2. Agreed.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Suppose the school is 90% evangelical christian

and all the evangelical christian students show up for graduation carrying crosses and bibles displayed prominently.

Now suppose you are part of the other 10%.

Nothing wrong there?

[malthaussen]

4. Nope, nothing.

Whatever gets them through the night.

-- Mal

[malthaussen]

5. Second such case I've seen posted about at DU

I guess it warms the cockles of my heart to see that some school administrators are as clueless as they were when I was in public school forty-odd years ago.

-- Mal

[pinto]

6. I see cases like this as part of a growing public awareness of our diversity. A good thing, overall.

This is a road worth traveling, imo.