Lakeland Student Arrested After Refusing To Stand For Pledge Of Allegiance

(Lakeland, FL) -- A mother wants charges dropped against her 11-year-old after he was arrested at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy earlier this month. The Lakeland student was taken to a juvenile detention center after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. He's being charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence. His mother says the student has been bullied in the past and shouldn't have been arrested.


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