Meyers High School - sophomore suspended for refusing to pledge allegiance to the flag - Brief Article

Reason, June, 2000 by Charles Oliver

Craig Paternoster, a sophomore at Pennsylvania's Meyers High School, was suspended for three weeks after he wouldn't stand for the pledge of Allegiance. That might seem to violate the Supreme Court's 1943 decision saying students can't be punished for refusing to recite the pledge. Not so, says the school: We didn't suspend him because he wouldn't pledge allegiance to the flag.

We suspended him because he wouldn't pledge allegiance to the flag. We suspended him because he wouldn't write an essay explaining his decision.