In a letter to the Carlisle Area School District last week, American Humanist Association attorney Monica Miller explained that an eighth grade student had contacted the organization to report that she had been mistreated after declining to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at Wilson Middle School on April 2.
Following the Pledge, the student said that she was berated by a school nurse.
“Why didn’t you stand for the Pledge?” the nurse reportedly asked loudly. The student said that she explained that she had the right not to participate.
“Fine! Then leave! I have the right to not service you!” the student said the nurse shouted in reply.
“The student reports that she left the nurse’s office in tears and went to the administrative offices to call her mother,” Miller wrote. A secretary then led the student to an office, but at that time the same nurse appeared again, saying, ‘She isn’t calling a parent until I have a long conversation with her!’”
It is the girl's right not to participate in the brainwashing procedure. It is not the nurse's right to refuse care to the student she is paid to treat. Simple as that.
Who told her she has the right to refuse a service that the student's mother taxes are paying for? I hope she loses her job.
It is remind me of a time when I was in Middle School and I didn't stand for the pledge because I didn't feel like doing it that day, which lead to my teacher attempting to berate me for it. But her wig did not stay intact because I had to let her know the ****s I gave. I was removed from her class because I cursed her out, but my principal let her know that I have a right to not stand up for the pledge.
I don't know if they do this in other states, but when I was in school we had to do a pledge to the Texas flag after we did the pledge of allegiance. It went:
Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas one state under god. One and indivisible
