A high school student has sued her school system after she says she was kicked out of the classroom for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
India Landry, 17, says she was send home from Windfern High School on Monday after refusing to stand for the pledge, event though she has sat through it hundreds of times previously.
India, now a senior, said that she had been sitting through the pledge since ninth grade, calling it a protest against ‘police brutality’ and ‘Donald Trump being president’ in an interview with the New York Daily News.
India Landry, 17, says she was send home from Windfern High School on Monday after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
‘They said you are kicked out of here,’ she told the newspaper. ‘The other woman said this isn’t the NFL, you won’t do this here.’
The public school district did not comment on what had actually happened in the classroom, but said in a statement: ‘A student will not be removed from campus for refusing to stand for the Pledge. We will address this situation internally.’
The lawsuit against the Cypress Fairbanks ISD claims that administrators had been ‘whipped into a frenzy’ by the recent controversy over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.
‘Students cannot be instantly expelled except for being a danger,’ the suit states.
India’s lawyer says administrators at Windfern High School (pictured) had been ‘whipped into a frenzy’ by NFL players’ kneeling protests during the national anthem
India’s mother Kizzy Landry said she was called into the school to pick her daughter up.
‘I’ve never been to a school where I was called to come get my child, and no one would talk to me about what’s going on,’ she told KHOU.
India says she has no intention of standing for the pledge in the future.
‘I don’t think that the flag is what it says it’s for, for liberty and justice and all that. It’s not obviously what’s going on in America today,’ she said.