A 15-year-old in South Carolina is suing her school district for violating her civil rights after a teacher assaulted her in the hallway for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Marissa Barnwell, a Black honor roll student at River Bluff High School, was walking to her classroom on November 29, 2022 — her birthday — when a teacher, Nicole Livingston, grabbed her and held her against a wall while the pledge was being recited.
Livingston, whom Barnwell does not have a class with, demanded that Barnwell stop walking and acknowledge the pledge, according to the lawsuit, which lists the teacher and the state Department of Education as co-defendants. Livingston then sent Barnwell to the principal’s office to face further discipline.
Although other students were walking in the hallway and not reciting the pledge, Barnwell was the only student targeted, the lawsuit notes. Barnwell was the only Black student in the hallway, and the school is predominately white.
After discussing the situation with Barnwell, the principal decided against punishing her and agreed to watch security camera footage of the attack. Barnwell’s mother later called the school, in tears, after learning that her daughter had been targeted.
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ah yes, i do fondly remember getting fed an industrial ton of shit by basically every single teacher i ever had for never standing for the pledge
what i do not recall is any of them ever laying hands on me over it. i can’t imagine what the difference might be! :us-foreign-policy:
if i were a yankoid and this were my kid, i would engage in actions that would have me identified as a federal agent on hexbear.net
In my highschool I actually had a teacher who didn’t stand for the pledge which was pretty badass.
Teacher should be beaten, at least.
Most of the people missing the fact that they specifically targeted this black kid, they weren’t even in class, just in the hallway, and other people weren’t doing the pledge either.
