Student Schools Teacher On Free Speech Rights

A Texas teacher was forced to pay a $90,000 penalty to a former student for forcing his class to write the Pledge of Allegiance or get a 0% on the assignment. Teacher Benjie Arnold then compared the students who didn’t comply with the assignment to communists, Islamic extremists who wanted to impose Sharia law, and pedophile sympathizers. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/30/texas-student-pledge-allegiance/

"Mari Oliver had for years refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at her Texas high school. Then, in her senior year, her teacher gave the class an assignment.

She and the other students would have to write the pledge.

Those who didn’t would get a zero, sociology teacher Benjie Arnold told his class, according to a federal lawsuit Oliver filed against him. Then, he compared people who refused to recite the pledge “to Soviet communists, members of the Islamic faith seeking to impose Sharia law, and those who condone pedophilia,” the lawsuit says.

Oliver did not recite or write the pledge. Instead, the 12th-grader drew a “squiggly line” and turned it in. She claims that, as promised, Arnold gave her a zero, something he has since disputed.
In 2017, Oliver’s mother sued Arnold, the Klein Independent School District and several other teachers at Klein Oak High School who, according to the suit, engaged in a years-long campaign to bully Oliver and violate her First Amendment rights. Oliver, who has since become an adult and taken over the case, also claims school and district officials failed to stop that harassment."

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