Pledge/Flags in public school

[Padfoot]

There was actually a big argument in my High School about the pledge.  Bush invaded Iraq during my senior year and there was a small group of people opposed to the war who refused to stand for the pledge afterward.  The school tried to give them detention but when their parents threatened to take the district to court the school struck a deal and those students sat in the office during the pledge so that they "didn't cause a disturbance."  This ended up being completely counteractive because all of these students were always late for second period which caused an even greater disturbance.  The school stopped using this policy after all the teachers complained about their classes being interrupted by late comers every day.