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Pledge of Allegiance

TX backs expulsion for not standing during pledge

By Paul Katula • Oct 8, 2018
A Texas student who was expelled for not standing during the pledge is suing the school for violating her free speech rights. [...]Read More... from...

Student says teacher made him recite pledge

By Paul Katula • Oct 2, 2016
A protest in Chicago's south suburbs ends with a student withdrawing from a school that, he says, refused to let him avoid reciting the pledge....

Maybe a Fla. dist. took pledge opt-out too far

By Paul Katula • Sep 3, 2016
Ah, Florida. Parents now have to be reminded, as if they didn't already know, that their kids don't have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance....
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