An 11-year-old student was arrested in school for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

It is his constitutional right to refuse to recite that text. I would refuse to say the words "under god". But the biggest wrong here is the presence of a thug in the school, ready at any moment to arrest students for breaking rules and try to feed them into the school-to-prison pipeline.

As this example shows, even articulate, gifted students are in danger from that.