Nurse Refuses To Treat Student Who Wouldn’t Stand For The Pledge of Allegiance

[KamaAina]

Atheist Group Demands Apology

http://www.inquisitr.com/2008477/nurse-refuses-to-treat-student-who-wouldnt-stand-for-the-pledge-of-allegiance-atheist-group-demands-apology/

A Pennsylvania nurse refused to treat a student who wouldn’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, sparking outrage with the American Humanist Association....

According to the AMA’s attorney Monica Miller, the eighth grade student contacted the association through their website DontSayThePledge.com to report that the nurse had refused treatment for her....

The student reportedly told the nurse, when questioned why she was not standing, that she had the right not to stand. The nurse, in return, said, “Fine, then leave! I have the right not to service you!”

“The student reports that she left the nurse’s office in tears and went to the administrative offices to call her mother,” Miller wrote, according to MSN. “A secretary then led the student to an office, but at that time the same nurse appeared again, saying, ‘She isn’t calling a parent until I have a long conversation with her!’ Still sobbing, the student said she only wanted to call her mother.”

[DarknessFalls]

1. RFRA

Smh...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. There'd have been hell to pay if that were my kid.

I hope her parents call the ACLU and get all over that school. I sure would.

[still_one]

3. The nurse should lose her license for that

[cyberswede]

4. I agree

What an asshole.

[Aerows]

5. This is the second story today

about a medical professional refusing to treat a patient because "reasons". The other was a story about a pharmacist that wouldn't fill a prescription for a woman that had a miscarriage and her doctor prescribed her something to help eject the dead fetus so that she didn't have to have surgery to remove it.

If you are entering or in the medical profession and feel that you cannot treat people equally and fairly, for God's sake get a different job. Refusal of service because "reasons" is the last thing a sick person needs.

[cali]

6. an apology just won't do. she refused to do her job. shit can the worm.

[City Lights]

7. Fire her ass. Pronto.

Who the fuck does she think she is?

[MineralMan]

8. She should be fired summarily.

School nurses don't get to choose who to serve. They work for the school, not the individual students. She refused to do her job. Someone should tell her, "You're fired! This security person will escort you out of the building."

[callous taoboy]

9. Immediate termination