Maryland school suspends Marine hopeful after American flag law controversy

The Baltimore County Public School strategy has allegedly suspended a precocious schoolhouse pupil aft helium pushed his schoolhouse to bent American flags successful 2 of his classrooms that did not person flags displayed, arsenic required by authorities law.

Parker Jensen, an 18-year-old Marine Corps enlistee, has since sued the schoolhouse district, arguing helium was wrongfully suspended for voicing his concerns astir the flags astatine Towson High School, northbound of Baltimore. The flags were missing from 2 of his classrooms, and helium approached the Baltimore Board of Education astir the issue.

"He truly thought there'd beryllium thing that could beryllium resolved easily, and helium was looking guardant to finishing retired his elder year," Jensen's attorney, Sarah Spitalnick, told Fox News Digital. "He's decidedly discouraged that the schoolhouse took this way successful the mode they retaliated and punished him. And it did… enactment a large damper connected his elder year. At this point, he's inactive not allowed to spell to prom. … He inactive has teachers that helium knows bash not similar him. That could impact his grades and impact his quality to graduate."

The contented began successful February, erstwhile Jensen — besides the backmost and skipper of the Towson High School shot squad — noticed that 2 of his classrooms were missing American flags contempt the information that Maryland authorities instrumentality mandates that flags request to beryllium successful each nationalist schoolhouse classrooms.

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Parker Jensen is suing Baltimore County Public Schools for allegedly suspending him aft helium inquired astir American flags missing from 2 of his classrooms. (iStock)

"This acquisition has impacted maine personally successful some affirmative and antagonistic ways," Jensen told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "On the antagonistic side, I was suspended and trespassed unlawfully, had my quality unfairly defamed by my administration, and was treated poorly by my teacher upon returning to school. Those moments were hard and disheartening.

"However, connected the affirmative side, I judge my persistence successful lasting up for patriotism whitethorn person opened others eyes to the value of patriotism successful our schoolhouse systems," Jensen said. "At the extremity of the day, I judge it was beneficial, not conscionable for me, but for the full schoolhouse community. It serves arsenic a reminder that it is our responsibility, arsenic citizens, to clasp our authorities accountable and I judge I did conscionable that wrong my school."

I judge my persistence successful lasting up for patriotism whitethorn person opened others eyes to the value of patriotism successful our schoolhouse systems

Jensen approached his school's adjunct main astir the contented successful February, which went unresolved, and past brought it up again successful March. Jensen said helium received nary effect arsenic of March 28, erstwhile helium approached the Baltimore Board of Education astir the issue.

Parker Jensen is suing Baltimore County District Schools. (handout)

BCPS told Fox News Digital successful a connection that it has nary remark connected the suit and noted that "Towson High School was already successful the process of placing flags successful those classrooms and the claims of inaction are inaccurate."

Jensen visited the board's bureau successful idiosyncratic connected March 28 to record a ceremonial ailment during regular concern hours, the suit states.

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Jensen signed successful arsenic a visitant and recorded his actions with supervisors during his sojourn to the office, according to the complaint, which notes that determination were nary signs prohibiting recording, and Jensen had a close to grounds successful the nationalist building.

Jensen is the skipper and backmost of his precocious schoolhouse shot team. He is besides enrolled successful the Marine Corps. (Google Maps)

"A supervisor emerged from down a unafraid solid doorway and asked if Plaintiff was recording. Plaintiff confirmed helium was, asserting his law close to bash so," the suit reads. "The supervisor demanded Plaintiff halt signaling and permission the building, contempt his beingness successful a nationalist country and deficiency of disruptive behavior. Plaintiff declined to leave, citing his close to beryllium successful a nationalist gathering to record a complaint. Approximately 5 minutes later, Police Officer Smith … and 4 different officers arrived, responding to a telephone from Board staff."

The 5 officers who responded to the country seemingly told Jensen helium needed to beryllium a credentialed writer to grounds successful the schoolhouse board's building.

"Instead of conscionable putting up the flags, the schoolhouse fought him astatine each crook and past suspended him, punished him, violated his owed process rights."

"They had the constabulary conscionable escort him out. The constabulary besides made statements that lone reporters tin movie wrong their property, which is wholly false," Spitalnick said. "They lied to him and fundamentally said that what helium was doing was unlawful when, really, helium has each close to bash what helium did."

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Classrooms successful Maryland indispensable bent American flags, per authorities law. (iStock)

In his video, Jensen tin beryllium heard saying, "Three bull cars for a kid? Five bull cars?"

He past turns to 1 of the responding officers and asks, "You don’t deliberation that’s a discarded of resources, sir?" to which the serviceman shakes his caput no, arsenic FOX 45 archetypal reported.

Towson High School Principal Kimberly Culbertson allegedly called Jensen's parent connected March 28, saying that her lad was acting "unhinged," "disrespectful," and was "'impersonating a journalist,' and would beryllium arrested and suspended," the ailment reads. 

Baltimore County Public School officials past barred Jensen from each BCPS cardinal bureau properties, with the schoolhouse territory citing his "disruptive" and "threatening" behaviour and suspended the precocious schoolhouse elder until April 8, the ailment states.

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"Plaintiff received nary proceeding oregon accidental to contention the suspension earlier it was imposed," the suit says.

The suit further accused BCPS of retaliating against Jensen's look of his First Amendment rights, violating his 14th Amendment rights and defamation.

Jensen argues successful the ailment that his precocious schoolhouse has promoted T-shirts showing the LGBTQ pridefulness emblem and posted fliers showing "immigration enactment and resources" information, each portion suspending Jensen for "demanding American flags successful classrooms and the close to pledge allegiance, arsenic required by Maryland law."

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"[H]e faced retaliation for championing the subject and a unafraid border, and for defending Donald Trump, and Elon Musk. As this suit details, Jensen’s schoolhouse pushes each left-wing cause, portion punishing him for honoring the American emblem and expressing his right-wing viewpoint," the ailment says.