IronJack,
I dreamed about hundreds of patriots surrounding the school and yelling up at it with our flags, but it was not to be.
One of my daughters best friends attends Boulder High and we just happened to have her over for supper the night of the rally. I asked her a few pointed questions during dinner.
How many students participated in the real pledge?
She told me that last year they had the pledge at lunchtime outside, and only a couple of kids showed up because of scheduling conflicts. But with the change this year, they have someone read the pledge over the speaker system every morning at 8:30, some kids stand up in class, put their hands over their hearts and say the pledge.
I was pleased to hear that!
Then she said the nubers were about 1/3 who were patriotic, 1/3 who were for the new marxist pledge, and 1/3 who honestly don’t care about the whole debate.
As I was walking to my car after the rally I stopped a group of boys who were heading to school and asked them if they agreed with the student workers club in changing the pledge, and one boy said, “not really”.
My daughters friend also said that when the students stormed out of class a couple of weeks ago to say the “new pledge” a boy came running into class and yelled, “its freaking communism”.
The students contacted the local paper, The Daily Camera (Which we patriots laughingly call, The Daily Comrade), and they were oh so happy to have a video camera outside of the school waiting to document the event.
They did not bother to show up for our pro troop rally on September 9th before Gathering of Eagles III, nor did they show up for the Pro Pledge rally last thursday. Although they were sent press releases about both events.
Anyway, the point is that there are some students at Boulder high with enough patriotism and courage to stand every day while the real Pledge is being recited. That was good to learn.
Also, the student worker club is VERY small and only had a couple of students willing to walk out of class to say the new pledge.
Its just a fringe group of kids who are being hyped up by the media.
Typical moonbat tactics.
Jenny
Blaming the media is too easy. It wasn't the media that held the rally, and I suspect you weren't there hoping that no one would notice.