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Student Accused of Threatening to Beat Teacher, Refusing to Recite ‘Racist’ Pledge
Breitbart ^ | 17 Feb 2019 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 02/17/2019 1:08:08 PM PST by Hojczyk

An 11-year-old Florida student was arrested for allegedly threatening to beat his teacher because he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, calling the pledge “racist” to black people.

The boy was removed from a classroom at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida, and arrested by a school resource officer on February 4 after he allegedly refused to obey school officials’ orders, Bay News 9 reported Friday.

The officer then took the sixth-grader to a juvenile detention center, where officials charged him two misdemeanor offenses— disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence. School officials also suspended him for three days.

The alleged incident began when a substitute teacher asked the student to stand for the pledge.

The student, who usually does not stand for the pledge, replied that he would not participate in the Pledge of Allegiance because he believed the American flag is racist and the national anthem is offensive towards black people.

The substitute teacher pushed back, telling district officials she told the student, “Why if it was so bad here, he did not go to another place to live.”

“They brought me here,” the boy reportedly replied.

“Well you can always go back, because I came here from Cuba and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore I would find another place to live,” the teacher then reportedly answered, before calling in other school officials to deal with the student.

Things escalated when the boy allegedly refused to follow school officials’ orders, called them racists, threatened to beat the teacher and get the school officials fired, according to the arrest affidavit.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: florida; localnews; obamalegacy; pledgeofallegiance; publicschools
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1 posted on 02/17/2019 1:08:08 PM PST by Hojczyk
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More from the articleHis mother, Dhakira Talbot, said the school should have handled the situation differently and is working with the Poor and Minority Justice Association, a nonprofit organization, to get the charges dropped.

“I’m upset, I’m angry. I’m hurt,” Talbot said. “More so for my son. My son has never been through anything like this. I feel like this should’ve been handled differently. If any disciplinary action should’ve been taken, it should’ve been with the school. He shouldn’t have been arrested.”

According to the school’s student handbook, students can opt out of the pledge with written permission from a parent or guardian. But a spokesperson for the school said the substitute teacher was not aware of the policy.

The district also told the substitute teacher she could no longer work at any schools within the district.


2 posted on 02/17/2019 1:08:46 PM PST by Hojczyk
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What did the boys Father have to say about the incident??

or is that too much of a racist question to ask?


3 posted on 02/17/2019 1:11:15 PM PST by eyeamok
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Her feelings aren’t relevant.

we all have feelings.


4 posted on 02/17/2019 1:11:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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[ An 11-year-old Florida student was arrested for allegedly threatening to beat his teacher because he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, calling the pledge “racist” to black people. ]

When is his rap album coming out?


5 posted on 02/17/2019 1:12:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Where did he learn the U.S. is a racist country..from his mother?

or Maybe CNN? No the democrats??


6 posted on 02/17/2019 1:13:04 PM PST by Hojczyk
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future rap ‘artist ‘


7 posted on 02/17/2019 1:13:58 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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"Dhakira Talbo"

Yep...

8 posted on 02/17/2019 1:15:47 PM PST by EEGator
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Somebody at the school may have encouraged him to do this. After all, it would be a fitting thing for someone at a school named after Walkin’ Lawton Chiles to do... /s - actually.


9 posted on 02/17/2019 1:15:57 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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You have to identify the father first; and at first glance, I’m not yet sure that even the mother could do so with 50% confidence.


10 posted on 02/17/2019 1:16:04 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Kid’s off to a good start becoming a Scooby snack for the corrections system. Prisons gotta eat too.


11 posted on 02/17/2019 1:16:36 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Future prisoner, more like.


12 posted on 02/17/2019 1:16:59 PM PST by onedoug
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The boy needs to learn how to handle differing opinions.
When you lose a debate, or don’t have an answer, it is not acceptable for you to threaten the questioner with death.
That only makes you look ignorant with a short fuse and a tiny brain.

Naturally, the School District sides with the juvenile delinquent. And they wonder why there is a shortage of teachers for public schools. People tire of getting dressed, driving to work, just to be treated like dung by little gangsters who hate any and all authority figures.


13 posted on 02/17/2019 1:17:03 PM PST by lee martell
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And the teacher was “punished” as well? What the heck for??


14 posted on 02/17/2019 1:17:21 PM PST by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (Bigfoot saw me, but no one believes him.)
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Of COURSE the TEACHER was the one ultimately punished, by being declared unemployable by the district. This substitute teacher was never briefed as to the rule about "students don't have to recite the Pledge". So how can they be held responsible for asking the student to recite the Pledge? They didn't ridicule him, they didn't smack him, they just (mistakenly) asked him to act like a civil human being. Apparently, thanks to the excellent race baiting tutelage by his gutter trash mother, he learned that he can (1) be disrespectful to his country, (2) be disrespectful to an authority figure, (3) act out in class and (4) get a teacher FIRED, all without penalty. In fact, there is a libtard legal organization rushing up to give the gutter trash mother legal assistance for her nasty kid being held accountable for poor classroom behavior. And what about him threatening the teacher? That's nothing? You see the same thing acted out time after time in the NYC libtard school system, where the word of the teacher means nothing compared to a pack of lies told by students.
15 posted on 02/17/2019 1:17:29 PM PST by EinNYC (wr)
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A 6th grade boy with this piss poor attitude?

he’ll be dead before he’s 20. But he will be killed by a fellow black gang banger, not a racist white cop.


16 posted on 02/17/2019 1:17:35 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: EEGator

Daktari Magumbo


17 posted on 02/17/2019 1:18:16 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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Funny how the accompanying stock photo to the story shows a classroom of well behaved white kids.


18 posted on 02/17/2019 1:19:17 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Colon Crappernick


19 posted on 02/17/2019 1:20:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I thought the courts ruled long ago that students couldn’t be required to recite The Pledge??


20 posted on 02/17/2019 1:24:48 PM PST by fso301
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