After pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, the school reversed its previous stance that students were required to perform the pledge.
In a letter to the school’s principal, Heather Hobbs, FIRE’s Jablonsky wrote that the organization was “concerned about the threat to freedom of conscience” presented by the school for “requiring students and staff to salute the American flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.”concluded with the demand that the school “correct its April 26 directive and notify staff of their rights and their students’ rights to refrain from participation in the pledge.”“Liberty and justice for all means liberty and justice for all, including students and teachers who dissent from the government position,” Terrin a statement. “Forced loyalty oaths violate the very ideals that make America worth pledging allegiance to in the first place.