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 promised to look at the video of the encounter and 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
I hope that student get every damn dime coming to them. 😤
why do any of you care about this? do you know this high school student? This whole thread seems contentious over a nothing story , whatever you personally believe, just believe it. why do you feel the need to share it haha
Sounds like there’s more to the story
Sounds like indoctrination…
WTAF 😡
The pledge was created as an anticommunist dog whistle to help indoctrinate American’s youth against the red scare, its grotesque. Having in god we trust on our money is the exact same BS too.
Mandatory patriotism is fascism
Sounds fake.
Another case of a person in power believing they have more power than they really do and all that is going to happen is the school district will have less funding to go to the other children when she wins her lawsuit. The ignorance in education is astounding.
I’d like to hear the other side or see video of the “push against the wall.” If accurate, this is clearly wrong. But I have my doubts
I used to be a big believer in the pledge until I thought about it and realized it was a pretty unChristian thing to do.
Why was she in the hallway when classes were obviously already started? The whole story is not being told and I would bet that it is about being late for class more than anything. The victim class chooses to make the story something other than what it is.
Well, with the accepted growth of fascism, this sounds about right.
Not my country but forcing minors to swear an oath daily is the creepiest thing. I wouldn't want my kid to do it either.
ashtonpittman Good. She did have her rights violated. Not to mention, we already had this issue settled by SCOTUS in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
Not excusing the incident, but it wasn’t a “teacher” who did this. It was a “teaching assistant” who was probably never educated in student rights - they are paid hourly in most districts in SC and do not receive a very comprehensive training. Only required to have a h.s. diploma
Fake patriots exerting power wherever they can because they have to showcase how fake of a patriot they are by forcing it
Settled law for the last 80 years. Can’t force anyone to say the pledge.
These are the same people that don’t take their hats off and drink beer during the pledge at sports events
Just in case you missed some real news there’s insolvent banks in America going bust.
Teacher should get a raise.
Parents sue after SC student says teacher assaulted her for not saying Pledge of Allegiance-Neither teacher, school district nor DOE accept any responsibility. Under SC law, anyone who does not want to participate is exempt & cannot be penalized. 73% of student body is white
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ashtonpittman I never once stood for or recited the pledge in HS because it was my right not to. It is this students right not to as well.
Please let that student know our family supports her 100%. I don't recite those words--EVER--even though I work in schools; neither did my children when they attended school. It's gross to force kids to pledge 'allegiance'--reminds me of Hitler Youth pledge. Gross.
Scary to think what would happen to her in CHINA. Also late for class!
Student rights don’t end at the schoolhouse door.
One of the earliest educations I gave to my kid was explaining the Pledge of Allegiance and if she didn’t agree to the “Pledge” to not say it. I was proud when I saw her respectfully stand and then not recite it during her graduation. Florence County.
Show the footage. I doubt the teacher did what the girl said, although I suppose it’s possible. I learned a long time ago to take the stories told by children with a grain of salt.
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
Christofascists
I'm a conservative and love America but I believe in free speech. I would never punish any person to say the pledge of allegiance just as I wouldn't punish anyone for not using certain pronouns or for sharing information about vaccine deaths.
The student was entirely within her rights here.
The most patriotic group in America are black women. Time and time again when it comes to voting they put everything on the line to save America and democracy.
The way she was treated was wrong without a doubt. Separate topic: Why couldn't she simply show some respect. Continue to walk? Arrogance.
This is terrible. The Pledge should not be a reason to be attacked.
HolyCitySinner Whining young now
No one can compel a salute of allegiance, and not under God.
I also did this in 9th grade and my history teacher took the opportunity to call me a commie in front of the whole class...
RESIST
An oath should scare the shit out of you. The pledge is trite and meaningless.
Its also to remember veterans who sacrificed themselves for you to be free to hate
Good for her! I knew people who wouldn't say it during school and I wouldn't say the 'under God' part. It isn't required at all.
Forced patriotism, that doesn't sound fascist at all
Sounds fake AF.
Goes to show you that blacks don't want to be part of this country. they just want to milk it when it's convenient for them.
“No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. ...” says the 15 yr old. Oh please.
Illegal. As a former teacher, I never pledged. I sat down at my desk and quietly waited for it to be over.
Why would anyone want to be a teacher?!
Why no assault charges on the teacher?
I'm sure the child was totally silent and definitely didn't say anything. 😂
A good reminder that some trashy 'patriots' really don't respect freedom
Violation of the first amendment.
Odds this is totally fake?
Replace 'pledge of allegiance' with North Korean or Chinese national anthems to see how disturbing it is that we have kids in grade school recite this en masse.
I am a MAGA freemom lover and i saw were all free to SUPPORT THE FLAG TROOPS AND GOD according to STATES RIGHTS LAW
Good for the parents. 💯 Stop forcing your personal beliefs on others.
Lol sue happy liberal amiright….
johnrich what do y’all think of this bullshit, nonsense waste-of-time crap?! Everyday, it’s got to be some stupid shit!
'...since 1943, when the Supreme Court ruled in the case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that students couldn’t be forced to salute the US flag or say the pledge because doing so would violate their First Amendment rights.'
You don't lay your hands on other people's children or pets...that rule...in my day he would not have called a lawyer..he would have handled it personally...
Nothing says 'FREEDOM' like physically assaulting a child for not toeing the line
Isn’t this long-settled law?
The irony that the same people that insist that every student recite the pledge don’t want our accurate history to be taught in schools.
Remain seated for the pledge, smirk and sniff obnoxiously.
'A state law passed more than 30 years ago requires public schools to play the Pledge of Allegiance at a specific time every day. But that law also prohibits punishing anyone who refuses to recite the pledge as long as they are not disruptive or do not infringe on others.'
So corny having to do this every day in school.
Any pledge with the word 'god' in it is a prayer and not a patriotic pledge. As an atheist, you cant expect someone to say the pledge of allegiance.
I always found forcing the Pledge of Allegiance on kids as a Hitler Youth strategy, even when I was the kid
Here we go with this 💩
⭐️ Marissa Barnwell and her family figure they've hit the ghetto lottery with this lawsuit. 🤣🤣🤣
Handmaid's Tale is coming for reals. VOTE to change.
'....The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.” Sorry hun, it not unimaginable here and now in the US where Caucasians are trying to run society back to the 1850s.
And then of course there's the hypocrisy of the Right whining about woke indoctrination when they've been benefitting from the conditioning of joiners to fly flags from the backs of their pickup trucks for DECADES now.
😮😮😮
For the umpteenth time, you can’t force people to be patriotic and trying has the opposite effect.
West Virginia V Barnett ruling stated a school nor government can force a person to do the pledge.
Since 1943 it's been against federal law to force students to recite the Pledge. This shouldn't even make it to trial.
words, just words, who cares…
Just get rid of it. Good!
You get, what you give. Welcome to reality.
Yea once you pledge allegiance once, why do we have to keep doing it over and over and over again
That teacher is lucky they didn't accost my kid, because a lawsuit would be the leat of their problems. Removing my boot from their ass would be 1.
Abolish the Pledge of Allegiance. The guy who wrote it never meant for it to be something so authoritarian.
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