re: Would you be bothered if you learned your son/daughter didn't stand for the pledge?

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I've many times thought about contacting the parents just to inform them of their child's actions, but that's a very slippery slope and could backfire and possibly even cost me my career, if they claim I'm infringing on their child's freedom of speech rights. Unfortunately, that's the times we live in.

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Punishing a kid for not standing is a violation of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that was decided and has been upheld since 1943. The premise of the ruling was based upon the protection of Jehovah Witnesses whose beliefs state they do not pledge to any symbol or object. Their objection was based on their persecution in Nazi Germany for objecting to pledge to the Nazi flag.

This isn’t something that’s the “times we live in”.