A Pennsylvania history teacher has been suspended without pay after a discussion about standing during the Pledge of Allegiance offended some of her 12- and 13-year-old seventh-grade students.
Every morning before classes start, students are told “please rise” for the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance, which are broadcast over the loudspeaker at Central Dauphin East Middle School in Harrisburg.
“About two thirds of the students remain seated,” teacher Sharon Davis, 60, told The Epoch Times. It has been that way since the start of the school year. It is their free speech right to do so.
After the pledge, Davis’s homeroom class stays with her for ancient world history. She has been teaching full-time at the school for 20 years….