Live Oak High School (Morgan Hill, California)
| Live Oak High School | |
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Live Oak High School's electronic signboard
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1505 East Main Ave. Morgan Hill, California United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°08′52″N 121°38′08″W / 37.1477°N 121.6355°WCoordinates: 37°08′52″N 121°38′08″W / 37.1477°N 121.6355°W |
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| Type | Public |
| School district | Morgan Hill Unified School District |
| Principal | Lloyd Webb |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Color(s) | Forest Green and Harvest Gold |
| Slogan | Go Nuts! |
| Mascot | Acorn |
| Newspaper | The Oak Leaf |
| Website | http://liveoak.mhusd.org/ |
Live Oak High School (LOHS) is a public high school located in Morgan Hill, California. Live Oak is part of the Morgan Hill Unified School District.
Live Oak Union High School was established in 1904. Montgomery Hall was used to house the pupils for the first term. Construction of the first permanent facilities were completed in 1905. At the organization of Live Oak Union, Highland, Burnett, San Martin, Machado and Morgan Hill rural school districts were included, and, in August, 1921, Coyote, Llagas and Uvas districts were added. The name was later changed to Live Oak High School after the Morgan Hill Unified School District was established, which combined the aforementioned rural elementary school districts.
In 1940 a new campus was built on the north side of town, along Monterey Street, between West Central Avenue and Keystone Avenue. The main entrance was at 80 West Central Avenue.
The school was moved from West Central Avenue to its present location at 1505 East Main Avenue in 1975. The former campus on West Central Avenue was renamed and established as Lewis H. Britton Middle School. Due to the establishment of Britton Middle School, from 1979 Live Oak High School consisted only of grades 10 through 12, but as of the autumn of 2004, it once again functions as a four-year high school.
On May 5, 2010, five LOHS students arrived at school wearing T-shirts and bandanas bearing emblems of the American flag. The school's administrators, led either by Principal Nicholas L. Boden or Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez (reports vary as to which), sent home four of them for refusing to remove the T-shirts on the Pueblan holiday of Cinco de Mayo. School officials deemed the garments "incendiary" and "disrespectful," fearing that displaying the American flag would incite fights with the Mexican-American student body. The four students were told they could choose to change their clothes or go home for the day.
Some of Live Oak's Mexican-American students said that they felt disrespected by the boys' action and demanded an apology. One Mexican-American student stated, "I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day. We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
The boys and their parents were livid over the school's actions, defending the students' right to wear the American flag. They alerted the local media to the event.
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