Some Chandler High School basketball players kneel during national anthem
Before Chandler played rival Chandler Hamilton in a boys basketball game Tuesday night at Hamilton, three Chandler players knelt with heads bowed during the playing of the national anthem. Chandler Principal Larry Rother said in an email the players have been doing this all season. "Some members of this team have been kneeling all season," wrote Rother, whose brother Jonathan, is the head coach of the team. "Chandler High has a long tradition of patriotism and an equally long tradition of supporting students' First Amendment rights to free speech and expression." What statement were they making? Rother didn't get into details on why, but said: "Schools, and our students, are not immune from the political climate in our country." Since 2016, when then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem at a preseason game, silent protests by American athletes, from pro to high school, have taken place during national anthems over police brutality and racism. basketball
Before Chandler played rival Chandler Hamilton in a boys basketball game Tuesday night at Hamilton, three Chandler players knelt with heads bowed during the playing of the national anthem. Chandler Principal Larry Rother said in an email the players have been doing this all season. "Some members of this team have been kneeling all season," wrote Rother, whose brother Jonathan, is the head coach of the team. "Chandler High has a long tradition of patriotism and an equally long tradition of supporting students' First Amendment rights to free speech and expression." What statement were they making? Rother didn't get into details on why, but said: "Schools, and our students, are not immune from the political climate in our country." Since 2016, when then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem at a preseason game, silent protests by American athletes, from pro to high school, have taken place during national anthems over police brutality and racism. basketball
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