Ok. Some aspects of the freedom of religion are subtle and complicated. Compelling participation in the pledge of allegiance and retaliating for non-participation are not in that category. And yet, both a biology teacher and assistant principal harassed a student in Montgomery County, Maryland (a first-ring suburban county of Washington DC!). How can a teacher and an assistant principal in a school where they are requiring the students to say the pledge not know the law? It has been a clear, bright line for 70 years! http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/damascus-student-who-faced-harassment-wants-to-discuss-reform-with-officials/2013/05/22/f778712c-c2e1-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
-- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Director of International Programs, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice http://iipsj.org Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 http://iipsj.com/SDJ/ "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." Martin Luther King, Jr., (1964, on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize)
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