A school that had ordered students not to wear representations of the U.S. flag on their clothing has rescinded the ban, after word of the order that prevented a student from recognizing the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks became public.

Supt. L. Stewart Hobbs Jr. said officials in the district that includes Hobbton High School have rescinded the decision made earlier by a school principal.

"From this point on, all dress code changes will be made at the school board level," the district confirmed.

The school in Sampson County, N.C., had come under national attention for the rule that banned students from wearing items of clothing that featured the American flag. On that basis, officials told a student not to wear a shirt bearing the American symbol on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that left about 3,000 innocent Americans dead.

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According to a blogger at the organization called StopTheAclu, Hobbs said the school system had had a problem with two issues, protests involving the Mexican flag, and gang members using flags to try to hide their gang symbols.

So, he said, the principal banned all flags.

"Dr. Hobbs has informed me that he is currently consulting with the school's attorneys as to how to respond to [a lawsuit threat]," the blogger wrote. WNCN Television in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region in North Carolina said the ban was set up a year ago after two students, each wearing the flag of a different country, got into a fight.

Gayle Langston told WECT-TV that her daughter, Jessica, wanted to wear a shirt with the symbol on it.

"And I had to tell her no. She didn't like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American flag shirt," Langston said.

There's a simple answer, according to "Brian," a blogger at Liberty Pundit:

"American flag, ok. Any other flag, no. But no, that's too simple. In today's liberal education system, God forbid someone show the flag, because it might offend a tree-hugging, soil-munching hippie who hates this country and everything it stands for, an illegal immigrant who thinks this country is Mexico II, or some exchange student from a country where they hate our guts," he wrote.

The ban of the U.S. flag contrasted starkly with several recent situations, including one where students were led in a pledge to the Mexican flag in a U.S. public school.

A radio station in Houston at the time had posted on its website two video clips of a Texas elementary school "diversity" assembly where a volunteer leads students in saying a pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag.

Station KTRH had posted both a video clip showing elementary students cheering and waving Mexican flags, and a separate clip showing people the school described as volunteers leading students in the pledge in Spanish.

WND also has reported where a university tried to punish a group of students for allegedly desecrating a terrorist flag, as well as a lawsuit over a city's ban that prevented the burning of a Mexican flag during a protest.

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