Back in 2017, a lawsuit was filed against the Texas Association of School Boards after Benjie Arnold, a 12th-grade sociology teacher at Klein Oak High School student, bullied a student for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. According to the student who filed the suit, she is nonreligious and was discriminated against and harassed
Mari Oliver, the Texas student awarded $90,000, was compared to a communist by her teacher, who allegedly bullied her when she refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.