Houston

Lawsuit: Teen Expelled for Sitting for Pledge of Allegiance

A lawsuit says a Houston student's Constitutional rights were violated when she was expelled for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Randall Kallinen, an attorney for 17-year-old India Landry's family, said the civil lawsuit was filed Saturday against the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District and a high school principal.

The lawsuit says Landry had been sitting for the pledge in class but was expelled Monday after not standing in the principal's office. The lawsuit says Landry returned to school Friday after the principal reversed course, saying Landry could sit.

Landry, who is black, told KHOU Thursday she doesn't think "the flag is what it says it's for, for liberty and justice and all that."

The district, which didn't respond to comment requests Saturday, told KHOU a student won't be removed for refusing to stand.

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