A Florida sixth-grader faces charges of disrupting a school function and resisting arrest after a confrontation that followed his refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
A sixth-grader from Florida is facing charges of disrupting a school function and resisting arrest after a confrontation following his refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
According to Lakeland Police, the school resource officer was alerted to a disturbance which was created by a student in a classroom at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy. On February 4, according to the boy’s mother, Dhakira Talbot, the 11-year-old was ordered by his substitute teacher, Ana Alvarez, to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance. The 11-year-old usually doesn’t stand up for the pledge, but Alvarez ordered him either way.
