Posted on 03/30/2022 9:16:03 PM PDT by algore
Former Klein Oak High School student Mari Leigh Oliver, 22, won $90K after the Texas school settled a discrimination case before it went to trial
The student claimed she was harassed by several teachers in 2017 after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
She said she felt 'we live in a country where there isn’t justice and freedom for all' and took offense to 'under God' and 'liberty and justice for all'
Under Texas law, a student does not have to participate in the Pledge as long as a parent has submitted a written request.
It is unclear if she had a request
Most teachers and the school district were dismissed from the case, except sociology teacher Benjie Arnold, 75, who allegedly harassed her for two years
He agreed to settle the case and the Texas Association of School Boards, a risk pool funded by Texas school districts, has paid the settlement
The student's mother, LaShan Arcenaux, filed the lawsuit against the school district and several teachers, accusing them of retaliation and discrimination, which would eventually lead her to pulling her daughter out of school and homeschooling her. The district and several teachers was later dismissed from the case, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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Courts enabling snowflakes.
Should have never stopped corporal punishment in schools.
Mari is a hateful little bitty.
Haven’t seen a pic, but I’m guessing she isn’t all that “little.”
Nice Malcolm X specs - what a shame it would be if she ended up the same way...
I just had to look, though I was 99% certain. I was right.
I’m surprised her name was ‘Mari’ rather than something like Laquisha or Monique, or something similar.
Brainwashed and petty-minded.
I taught for many years in an urban public high school. When I first started the kids would always stand for the pledge (which was a pleasant surprise for me). I’d say, “Pleas stand” and everyone stood. Some said the pledge. But most didn’t. I was okay with that.
Then one day this skinny white kid refused to stand. I got into a kind of intellectual argument with him about that. He sounded like a Bolshevik, and he wouldn’t budge. So I told him he had to leave the room during the pledge. (That was actually a stupid thing for me to say. He called my bluff, and wouldn’t leave.)
So I went to see the principal, an old-timer who was actually an army veteran. He sympathized with me, but told me the law was on the kid’s side. So let him be. Which I did.
That was maybe around 1995. Ten years later nobody was standing.
Your comment is contemptible.
Yes. That should be taken down.
Another ghetto skank playing the victim as usual. She hates it this much she’s free to go back to her “native land” and live in a grass hut.
Pay money to traitors to the United States?
Many of these people like this woman are set up by the ACLU to stir up trouble and coached. She’s not going to get the whole settlement, and she certainly wasn’t smart enough to think of it on her own. She’s in HS or grammar school?
Or a minority bunch is sent into a small, rural, town to go to restaurant, act rowdy, and then claim discrimination and racism when someone corrects them on behavior.
We have a very corrupt govt that allows an organization like the ACLU to exist, and extort.
But, did she kneel?
Her lawyer will get half and she will have family and friends who will get the rest.
Hatred for your country will not help her in the coming years.
What an unpleasant looking creature.
Radiates hatred and intolerance.
Is there any doubt it would be no settlement or a smaller one if she were any other ethnicity?
+1.
Very sad story for the country that you grew up in. The historical irony is that in the spending public $$$ for education was to develop and ensure good citizenship. While no one talks or thinks about that - the question needs to be asked, what is the purpose of public education today?
On the other hand with the left in control of these institutions, it is high time to use the precedents against them - refuse to pledge to the rainbow flag, sit, etc etc. The better option for one’s child is apparent - networked home schooling. Hopefully there is a growing number of parents who learned this during the Fauxi pandemic and will stick with it.
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