Western Minn. school board drops Pledge requirement
(AP) - The Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton School Board has scrapped a rule that students stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.
On a 5-2 vote, the board voted to amend the handbook to allow students to sit out the Pledge.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota had said it would consider a lawsuit if the rule stood.
School board members had deadlocked on the issue in May. But they were reluctant to drag the western Minnesota district into a costly legal fight.
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Last month, Junior High Principal Colleen Houglum suspended three students for sitting during the Pledge and a fourth who remained seated in protest the next day.
The handbook rule had required students to stand even if they choose not to recite the Pledge.
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