End the Occupation! - Mass. School Bans Pledge of Allegiance

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[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

To quote Larry Elder: Pass the Tylenol. Fox News reports:

School Officials in Mass. Town Won't Let Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance
By Todd Starnes
Published June 29, 2010

When Sean Harrington entered his freshman year at Arlington High School, he noticed something peculiar: There were no American flags in the classrooms, and no one recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

So Harrington enlisted the aid of his fellow students, and now, three years later, they have succeeded in getting flags installed in the classrooms. But the pledge still will not be recited.

The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old’s request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it [WTF???], according to a report in the Arlington Patch.

Harrington had presented school officials with a petition signed by 700 people, along with letters of support from lawmakers ...

[al baby]

But they make you sing that obama song

[Celerity]

This July 4th, I mourn the state of the United States, I mourn the death of our forefather’s America, and I contemplate ways of getting her back.

Also, I ask that all teachers who won’t recite the pledge, and all people who won’t recite the pledge, never to be given a national holiday off of work.

[DemonDeac]

I really don’t care as much about whether or not kids have to say some little homage to their government at the start of each day. If a principal wants ‘em to thats fine and if he doesn’t who cares.

[Sic Parvis Magna]

I don’t remember ever reciting the pledge of allegiance in high school; that was something we did in elementary school, but never in junior high or high school.

[mrmeyer]

"The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old’s request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it."

This lame ass excuse is pure bullshit. When I was in highschool (94-98) our principal would come on the intercom and recite the pledge while each homeroom class stood with hand over heart facing the flag.

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

I don’t think it’s the issue of NOT reciting the pledge, but rather the issue of being FORBIDDEN to recite it. It’s the latter that’s going on in Arlington.

[Sic Parvis Magna]

Now it’s being forbidden, but the issue came up because it wasn’t being recited in high school, to which I was responding.

[MatD]

I’ve always been a bit torn on the Pledge. Of course, it means alot ot all of us and especially to the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrafice to our country. But the Pledge was created by a socialist Francis Bellamy. I wonder how many people truly understand the history of Bellamy and the Pledge.

[cranked]

There is no wonder as to why many states that border Mass. call Mass. inhabitants “Massholes”.

Mass. is another California-like state that I wish would break off, float out into the middle of the ocean and sink. /s =.=

[pepperdog]

Any teacher who refuses to recite it should be fired, any school that refuses to fire the teacher should have their government money withdrawn IMMEDIATELY. Somehow this insanity has got to be stopped. We live in the UNITED States of America!

[Sic Parvis Magna]

I doubt many do.