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High schoolhouse student Cameron Blasek received a patriotic paintjob free of complaint for his pickup motortruck aft East Central High School administrators successful St. Leon, Indiana attempted to extremity him from displaying nan American flag earlier this month.
Blasek, 17, proudly displayed an American emblem connected his motortruck for astir of his elder year, but Blasek said schoolhouse administrators told him it collapsed schoolhouse rules and needed to beryllium removed.
"They had told maine if you don't region this flag, you're getting written up for insubordination. And I told them, hey, you know, there's nary rules aliases regulations saying I can't, I publication nan [rules] disconnected their handbook."
After schoolhouse administrators attempted to artifact 17-year-old Indiana precocious schoolhouse elder Cameron Blasek from flying nan American emblem connected his truck, section business GCI Digital sponsored a patriotic wrap connected nan conveyance free of charge. (Cameron Blasek)
Soon afterward, different students arrived astatine schoolhouse flying American flags connected their cars, and nan news communicative went viral.
Cameron added, "I conjecture different students had heard astir that and they showed up nan adjacent time pinch flags connected nan backmost of their vehicles."
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GCI Digital, a business based retired of adjacent Cincinnati, heard astir Cameron Blasek's patriotic story and decided to outpouring into action. They talented a brand-new civilization American emblem wrap to nan precocious schoolhouse senior, free of charge.
TJ Bedacht, proprietor of nan section business, shared successful a connection pinch Fox News Digital, "We saw Cameron’s communicative and it resonated pinch america successful a batch of ways. The motortruck was his grandfather's and Cameron is simply a existent American, willing successful serving successful nan US Military."
Blasek is already a instrumentality of his caller red, white, and bluish addition. "I emotion it. It's only been 1 time astatine schoolhouse truthful far, but, I deliberation it's great. I emotion driving astir pinch nan large emblem each complete nan vehicle. I deliberation it's awesome."
Part of GCI Digital's civilization overgarment wrap for 17-year-old Cameron Blasek features a quote from nan Declaration of Independence (GCI Digital)
17-year-old Cameron believes that nan American emblem represents "a batch of things."
"I deliberation nan American emblem represents people who fought and served for this state and mislaid their lives. But I besides deliberation it represents a consciousness of unity successful this country."
"I deliberation nan American emblem represents group who fought and served for this state and mislaid their lives."
— Indiana precocious schoolhouse student Cameron Blasek"I deliberation it's thing that everybody tin work together on, nary matter who you are aliases wherever you travel from aliases what you look like. I deliberation that's thing that tin bring group together."
Blasek believes that location is an important instruction to beryllium learned from his experience.
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"Stand for what you judge in. Hold your crushed connected immoderate business that you judge in."
Principal Tom Black told Fox News Digital that nan norm "was ne'er astir nan U.S. emblem and it was regarding each flags connected vehicles."
"This is owed to imaginable information issues pinch visibility and 500-600 teenage drivers leaving astatine nan aforesaid clip during dismissal, arsenic good arsenic concerns that flags that are not due for schoolhouse will beryllium displayed."
After consultation pinch nan Superintendent ,however, Black wished nan schoolhouse could let nan U.S. emblem while still restricting different flags.
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"We regret and are sorry for nan disorder and are moving diligently to explain nan rumor pinch our community," Black said.
Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this story.
