NC: Students fly Confederate flag outside North Carolina school

Some parents are upset after a Confederate flag was seen at a North Carolina high school. A student at a high school in North Carolina captured a photo of a classmate flying a Confederate flag on campus.
The flag was seen flying in the Porter Ridge High School parking lot hours earlier on top of a student's vehicle. One parent said her child will be a freshman next year, and seeing the flag at a school that should be accepting to all students hit her hard.

"We just want to make sure that our children are safe. Nobody wants to go to school and feel unsafe," one parent told WBTV on Thursday. "I'm not even at the school and it makes me feel unsafe."
The mother added that the flag itself isn't the primary issue; rather, what it represents for a large group of people becomes the biggest concern.

"To have my child go to school and pull into a parking lot, and that's the first thing he sees when he's going to just get an education, that really made me cry this morning."

The mother of the student who took the photos said it was disheartening to see something like this happen where her daughter currently goes to school.

"I honestly don't think it will ever end, because it goes on everywhere. But where my child attends school, I wish it did not go on."

A Union County Schools spokesperson said there are no school policies against flying flags on school property.

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The Confederate Battle flag that was commissioned by Confederate generals who were slave plantation owners and later adopt as the Confederate armies official flag