A teacher at a California high school lowered the grade of a student who refused to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.
Leilani Thomas, the student, said she had been sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance since the second grade, KXTV reported. A teacher at Lower Lake High School took points off her participation grade for sitting.
“She told me I was being disrespectful and I was pretty mad,” Thomas, who is Native American, told KXTV. “She was being disrespectful to me also, saying I was making bad choices, and I don’t have the choice to sit during the pledge.”
