Ohio high school bans confederate flags from vehicles—some students need Ohio history lesson

Kettering Fairmont High School in southern Ohio came into the news when students and parents complained about other students—let's call them un-informed youth—who were flying Confederate flags from their pickup trucks. The school has ended that practice on school grounds.

“We are not impeding on anybody’s constitutional rights,” Inskeep said at a news conference with Dayton Unit NAACP President Derrick Foward on the flag issue.

Foward said the local NAACP became involved after the parent of a student at the school filed a formal complaint with the civil rights organization.

“If somebody wants to fly the Confederate flag, that’s fine,” he said. “That is their prerogative, as long as they do that when it’s not on school property or on grounds that offends or affects other people and other citizens when they are conducting work.”

It's their prerogative but it's pretty dumb. For one, Ohio was in the Union during the Civil War. For two, the only civil war battle on Ohio's soil was the defeat of Morgan's raiders at Buffington Island. So, the only Confederate flag that should be flown is the one the Union soldiers launched back south in 1863 after John Hunt Morgan lost some more men on one of his sociopathic death-wish missions.