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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Assuming this is a public school, it's operated by the government and the teacher acts on behalf of the government.
The First Amendment still isn't going to help him, though.
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True. But again, this isn't to protect people from their teachers punishing them for being an idiot. It's to protect the kid from being arrested for "speaking against the government" as a whole (in refusing to say the pledge of allegiance).
Either way, the whole thing is stupid.