This is settled law—Supreme Court decision back in the early ‘40s IIRC. Involved Jehovah Witnesses I think. While we may share the teacher’s sentiment about the Pledge, students are not required to recite ergo, to write also.
I hope she uses the money wisely and invests in a proper education that will carry her far.
Yep. West Virginia v. Barnette.
“[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.“