The San Jacinto Unified School District agreed in late October 2014 to apologize to a Monte Vista Middle School student after a teacher admonished an 11-year-old boy for not standing during the pledge. “The school district offered the student a secular poem instead,” Giardina’s attorney Monica Miller told me in an email. In 2017, Mari Oliver, a high school senior in Spring, Texas, sat silently during the school’s daily recitation of the pledge. She filed a lawsuit against several teachers, a school administrator and the school district, saying she was badgered for refusing to recite the pledge. AdvertisementAn attorney for the school district would only say the district is working on a response to the lawsuit.

Source: Huffington Post July 04, 2023 17:33 UTC