‘Get Your Hands Off Me!’: White South Carolina Teacher Pushes Black Teen Against the Wall for Refusing to Say Pledge of Allegiance, Now the School Must Pay Her Family $75,000
After two years, the family of Marissa Barnwell has reached a settlement with the school district that employed a teacher who angrily confronted the then-15-year-old honor roll student who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Barnwell was awarded $75,000 by Lexington School District 1. Neither side has commented about the agreement, first disclosed by…
