Not every 12-year-old spends his weekends doing speaking engagements, but Jaiden Rodriguez has been in demand ever since he refused to remove his Gadsden flag patch at school.
The Colorado Springs boy was the featured speaker at a Brave Books weekend reading sponsored by Grandparents 4 Kids, where he read aloud Kevin Sorbo’s book “The Test of Lionhood” to dozens of rapt children and parents at the Castle Rock Library.
A viral video posted by “The Tuttle Twins” author Connor Boyack showed a school administrator telling him the patch has its origins in slavery.The Vanguard School Board of Directors quickly reversed course, saying that the charter school “recognizes the historical significance of the Gadsden flag and its place in history” and allowing Jaiden to keep the patch.
“[Someone] definitely snatched it,” said Jaiden. “Birds didn’t take it off, that’s for sure. It was tight Velcro. They could have done it maybe when I was at lunch.” “It’s just insane that it happened in general, the fact that she [the administrator] thought it was related to slavery,” Jaiden said. “The sad thing is that people are getting false knowledge.”
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