Florida boy, 11, arrested after refusing to recite ‘racist?Pledge of Allegiance:

[Lomadeaux]

Lmao.........

[Chollo Vista]

I can't tell who's quoting who or follow the conversation in this thread

[Lopez_Boxing]

I am quoting him. Lopez is screwing everything up by screwing with the html or something. I know it was from him.

lol here we go not taking responsibility for our own screw ups. you made a mistake on comment 19. its fixed. now

[Lomadeaux]

lol here we go not taking responsibility for our own screw ups. you made a mistake on comment 19. its fixed. now

Lol, it was me?

[Lopez_Boxing]

Lol, it was me?

it looked like it, but fck who knows and how cares. we all kept it going. lol.. smalls things to a giant.

[GGG Gloveking]

Having to stand and recite the pledge is now optional in most if not all schools.

I'm almost sure it's nothing to get arrested for...

I'm not saying he should have had to stand, and certainly don't think an arrest was warranted. But his excuse of the pledge being racist is pretty much bullsh it the way I see it

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Both are wrong but the teacher has absolutely zero excuses for her actions. The kid at least had a point and is still just a kid

Teacher should have handled it way better, this could have actually been a golden opportunity to discuss and educate, instead of being a dumbshyt and telling the 11 year old kid to move away

But then the kid shouldn’t have blown up at the other school officials and authorities and got arrested.cant say that I blame him, we all been heated before, but gotta keep calm under duress.


He wasn’t arrested for not standing for the pledge, he was arrested for blowing up afterwards.


But if I’m the prosecutor, I drop these charges in a heartbeat.

If I’m the school, I’m probably looking to remove the teacher, no way should a teacher be that antagonistic towards an 11 year old

[Chollo Vista]

A Florida middle school student was arrested earlier this month after allegedly getting into a confrontation with school officials and a law enforcement officer following reports that he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

The 11-year-old attends the sixth grade at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland. He has been charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without being violent, both misdemeanors. The Feb. 4 incident began when the boy allegedly told his substitute teacher he did not want to stand for the pledge because he viewed the American flag as racist against African-Americans.

In a handwritten statement to Polk County Public Schools, the teacher reported telling the boy, "Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live." She said he then said, "they brought me here," according to Bay News 9.

The student was arrested by a school resource officer after he refused to follow commands and called school officials racists, reports said. He has not been identified by the school or police. A Lakeland police spokesperson declined to comment on the matter, The Ledger newspaper reported.

The boy's mother told the news station that "if she (the teacher) felt like there was an issue with my son not standing for the flag, she should've resolved that in a way different manner than she did."

Where did the boy say the pledge of allegiance was racist?

He said the American flag symbolized racism. That's nothing to do with the pledge of allegiance being racist

[Chollo Vista]

I'm not saying he should have had to stand, and certainly don't think an arrest was warranted. But his excuse of the pledge being racist is pretty much bullsh it the way I see it

G, I think you misread the article. The boy was saying the flag symbolized racism. I don't think he called the PoA racist.

[GGG Gloveking]

G, I think you misread the article. The boy was saying the flag symbolized racism. I don't think he called the PoA racist.

The flag represents our country. The Republic. To say our flag is the racist is to say that we as Americans are racists. That flag represents former president *****, as well as all of the black and minority congressional reps. Clarence Thomas, a black supreme Court Justice is represented by that flag.

Historically,that flag represents the hundreds of thousands of men that died in the fight for freedom. That flat represents the soldiers from both world wars, that fought and died for freedom. It represents those soldiers that have fought tyranny and oppression.

That flag represents the lawmakers that have helped shape our country. Those that voted for the 13th *********, and the 19th. Those that voted for the Equal Rights Act. That flag represents people that have worked to make this country a place of opportunity for people of all races.

But, if we let some kid with basically a 5th grade education tell it, and it represents racism. Maybe in middle school, if he pays attention, he'll learn the concepts of "all men are created equal", and "liberty and justice for all" ...which happens to be in the pledge he refused to stand for...