Wednesday 11 October 2017

No, students can’t be kicked out of public school for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance

No, students can’t be kicked out of public school for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance

India Landry, a Windfern High School senior, says she was in the principal’s office on Monday when the pledge came over the intercom. She says the principal told her to stand, but she refused. “And then the pledge came on, and they both stood, and then I didn’t,” Landry said. “[The principal] asked me to, and I said I wouldn’t. And then she said ‘Well, you’re kicked out of here.’ ”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/10/08/no-students-cant-be-kicked-out-of-public-school-for-refusing-to-stand-during-the-pledge-of-allegiance/?source=Snapzu

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