9th grader sues over Pledge of Allegiance confrontation

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https://apnews.com/article/pledge-allegiance-lawsuit-high-school-77c0adcde3759b14d9b038c4ba20041a

9th grader sues over Pledge of Allegiance confrontation

By JEFFREY COLLINS
March 10, 2023 GMT

Marissa Barnwell, a River Bluff High School student, her parents and their lawyer, Tyler Bailey, hold a news conference in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023, regarding a lawsuit filed against Lexington School District One. Marissa said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall. (Alexa Jurado/The State via AP)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.

Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall.

Barnwell was then sent to the principal’s office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.

“I was completely and utterly disrespected,” Barnwell, 15, said at a news conference Thursday, according to The State newspaper. “No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. ... The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. At this age, children/students are compelled by law to attend school.

This girl was subjected to humiliation, harassment, emotional distress, and unofficial punishment.

This isn't about patriotism. It's about conformity, chauvinism, and to a certain extent, racism.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. +1

[Walleye]

2. I wish they would read the word themselves, they are pledging allegiance to "one nation"

[twodogsbarking]

3. I blah the blah to the blah and to the blah for which it stands.

[vlyons]

4. pledge allegience to a piece of cloth?

I never say the pledge, but I do stand respectfully when others recite it. The flag is merely a piece of cloth, which SYMBOLIZES whatever someone subjectively imagines it to stand for.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. I will wait for the other side of the story, teacher hasn't filed defence yet...media really

should wait for that before pulling the trigger on the Outrage Gun! and riding it to ProfitLand in Litigation Nation.

I know, as likely as real Gun control.

We all understand theatre proof is on the Accuser, don’t we? Courts do. Real Courts.

Summary Judgment by Social Media prior to all the evidence being heard usually doesn’t pan out.

[intheflow]

8. An adult accosted a minor and sent them to the principal's office

for something that wasn't illegal and in most places would be seen as a virtue (the student was continuing to her classroom instead of stopping in the hallway to cite the pledge). The student is compelled by law to be in the building, and thus was not only pushed by an adult but was in essence, trapped by a zealot. There is no way the teacher can spin this that exonerates them.

[SCantiGOP]

9. There's video with the story

It shows the teacher shoving the student against the wall. Teachers never have a right to lay hands on a student.
And, you can see that she is the only African American student in the hall. She is confronted as several white students pass by.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. A single video is not ever a full story, any lawyer will tell anyone that.

But actual legal in a court, not on internet verdict based on th law, will take…Time…internet will have made many flash judgments by time this lawsuit yet without a defence filed is decided.

Do folks know how the legal system works, at all?

[Captain Zero]

7. Instead of under God, I say Under Law

Because I'm free to do so.