A 12 year old boy wouldn’t stand for the flag, and when his teacher yelled at him for it, the situation escalated

WILMINGTON, NC - APRIL 9: Children at Forest Hills Elementary School say the Pledge of Allegiance as they welcome the Azalea Queen and official party during the Azalea Festival, on April 9, 2015 in Wilmington, North Carolina. For the past 20 years, each year, a school is picked for a visit. Children here dressed in their best outfits, the boys wore bow ties and the girls flowers in their hair. (Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

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A 12-year-old student in Florida claims he was scolded by his teacher when he did not stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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“I don’t believe in standing up for it, because there’s more than one religion,” sixth grader Mark Dawson said to WFLA. “I believe in more than one religion and more than one nation.”

Dawson attends Liberty Middle School in Hillsborough County, where the school district’s policy states that students do not have to take part in the pledge, “as long as they don’t get in the way of other students who want to say it,” WFLA reports.

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Dawson said  that after his teacher yelled at him, she then told him to leave the classroom. A school spokesperson said to WFLA that the teacher “was in the wrong” and allegedly did not know about the school policy.

Dawson’s family members told WFLA that they might sue the school district for infringing on the boy’s rights, according to WFLA.

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