Isn't diversity and tolerance wonderful?
In a normal world, the child would be forced to apologize to the class.
In our society, it appears that "whining" changes things.
What if it was found to be a prayer to Allah? Or Satan? Or the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Your assumption is it is a prayer to your Christian God.
The teacher “questioned him”? The horror!
I’m sure this child’s ‘parents’ are very proud of him.
Next week, the school will eliminate the pledge to accommodate the atheist. And next month the school will allow anyone to use any restroom to accommodate suspected transgenders. And next year estrogen will be handed out to all boys to “calm them down” so they are more feminine. The LW Slippery Slope is out of control
what flag were they pledging to? The Mexican flag?
was this the first time he ever stayed seated?
Is it so hard for those that don’t agree to respect those that do? He could have stood and remained silent.
I bet he and his parents have no problem handling money with the words “in God We Trust”
More details in this article:
Apology for student who didn’t stand during pledge
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article3366950.html
“The boy complained to his mother that his teacher questioned him about his actions and she contacted the Washington, D.C.-based American Humanist Association, a nonprofit group that takes up the cause of atheists, the Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1oDO9HG) reported.”
Conservatives should ask themselves why they want the government schools to force their children to pledge allegience to the Federal flag.
I don’t want my child pledging allegiance to the Federal flag.
Allegiance is earned.
Nobody can tell me that “mommy” and “daddy” didn’t put their little idiot up to doing this.
A Rat Party voter in the making.Probably already has his welfare payments lined up for adulthood.
I wonder where he got the idea to do this?
As usual, a conga line of FReepers come out screaming in defense of “the pledge.”
The “Pledge of Allegiance” explicitly denies the right of secession, which is a NATURAL RIGHT that is affirmed in the Declaration of Independence. That the people have the NATURAL RIGHT of secession is among the “self-evident truths” listed in the Declaration. (Yes. There are more of them than just “life, liberty, and the purfuit of happinefs.”)
And the people, when they formed the federal government, never surrendered the natural right of secession. And if they had attempted to surrender it, the Constitution would have been corrupt and invalid from day one.
Please, people. Get over your unthinking, jingoistic fetish about “the pledge”!
Wear an American flag tee shirt to school = Bad.
Got it.
-PJ