Posted on 06/04/2007 1:47:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Patriotism needs to be taught.
I don't like the concept of the socialist-driven Pledge of Allegiance, but the disturbing part here is the lack of education for them to decide for themselves how wonderful this place is. If they choose to turn from it then, okay, but they should at least be given the opportunity to make an educated choice of indifference.
Idiot! Scurry back over to DUmmyland.
This is really sad
...to our "leaders" in Washington apparently.
This stopped George for a moment. After he recovered, he asked the head of the history department how that could be. The teacher replied that Newton did not approve of teaching about the military and that to cover World War II, they taught about the internment of Japanese-Americans and about the liberation of the Nazi concentartion camps at the end of the war. George asked, in return, if they taught that it was the American Army that liberated most of the camps. According to George, the teacher replied that "they tried to make the Americans out to be the good guys when they could." At this point George asked the teacher for his name, and according to George, the teacher hung-up on him.
http://navlog.org/save_the_tiger.html
The feeling of belonging to a wonderful country has gone. Years of liberalism and immigration have destroyed for many people the idea that “we” are a nation.
I am a high school teacher in North Carolina. I am also a veteran. This year was the first year that NC schools required the Pledge of Alleigance during morning announcements. I was also discouraged with the apathy, most students ignored it. One day I played Red Skelton’s remarks of the pledge that he learned from his teacher, Mr. Laswell. Not all joined in after that, but many began to understand. I also mentioned that my son served in Iraq and that they may also be asked to serve and protect our country in the future. God Bless.
We have become a nation that is unwilling to count its blessings
Maybe they can fit it in if they have any time left over from teaching how to put on a condom/s Good article!
The HELL with that. The pukes that don’t pay attention are the America haters of tommorow. The bastards should lick the boots of every single patriotic member and veteran of the Armed forces of the United States.
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Idiot? Education?
Do you not realize that the Pledge of Allegiance was written and promoted by a socialist named Francis Bellamy--a liberal clergyman who was booted from his Baptist church pulpit for his socialist sermons? The photo I posted was of children reciting it...and here's an illustration from the magazine he edited, showing children reciting the Pledge...
Later on, the salute was modified to the hand over the heart, because of the bad press the Nazis gave this one.
Perhaps you just love the Big-government, Nanny-state RINO wave sweeping this nation, but some of us still believe the government doesn't own us. Pledging allegiance to a FLAG...hmmmm... That's not where I believe MY allegiance should be.
It's not just "[they] don't pay attention"...
As the article states
This ignorance should not come as a surprise. The most recent New York State test results for eighth graders entering high school indicated that only 27 percent had a basic knowledge of American history. The New York State history curriculum barely touches the actual battles and major political events of the Civil War.In other words, this information has been weeded out of what is presented to our public school students. That is WRONG.
But of course, we can't have time for tolerance-training, administrative duties, etc., unless we boot important information from the curricula.
In the interest of YOUR own education, perhaps you should take the time to research the background of the Pledge. It was indeed intended to promote the “one big country under the federal government” concept, at the expense of state sovereignty. That concept is at the root of nearly all the socialism we suffer under to day.
Personally, I’d rather remedy the Pledge than dump it. Remove the “under God” phrase, which was not part of the original pledge and has become contentious, and replace it with “of 50 sovereign states”
In my school days (Norwalk, CA) all of us recited the Pledge each morning AND learned the full US historical record. Are today's kids too busy setting up meth transactions on their Blackberries to do both?
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These kids need to spend a year in Cuba, then come back, they’ll be singing a whole different tune.
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