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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."

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Kyle Kennedy, a spokesman for the school district, told the
paper that students are not required to recite the pledge. He
said the substitute teacher will no longer be working with the
district and that he could not comment on the student’s
discipline.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-boy-11-arrested-after- refusing-to-recite-racist-pledge-of-allegiance
 

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