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sakabatou

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Wed Apr 15, 2015, 02:08 PM Apr 2015

Atheists Condemn School Nurse for Refusing to Treat Student Who Won’t Stand for Pledge [View all]

An atheist group has demanded that a Pennsylvania school apologize to a student who reportedly was refused medical treatment because she exercised her right not to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

More: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/atheists-condemn-school-nurse-refusing-treat-student-who-wont-stand-pledge


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