Flag Ban

(Fox News) - Students at Hobbton High School in Sampson County, North Carolina were prohibited from wearing any likeness of the U.S. flag Tuesday on the anniversary of 9/11, because of a school policy banning the wearing of any flag.

The school's principal said the policy was a reaction to gang members who wore foreign flags as gang symbols. Parents and locals were outraged and the ban made national news.

But Wednesday, the school district superintendent had had enough of the e-mails and phone calls and media reports. He struck down the ban and said that from now on no individual principal could make any changes in the county dress code which does not ban the wearing of flags.