Posted on 06/30/2010 5:53:00 AM PDT by Dayvester
Sean Harrington, a senior at Arlington High School, faced the School Committee on Tuesday with frustrated tears in his eyes.
He had just come tantalizingly close to realizing his dream: he wanted every student in the Arlington schools to have the chance to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.
But in spite of Harrington’s impassioned speech citing mothers who lost children in Iraq and aging Baby Boomers left mentally shattered after Viet Nam, the committee vote was tied 3 - 3, and the measure failed.
School Committee members Joseph Curran, Cindy Starks and Chairman Joseph Curro voted to reinstitute the pledge, while Leba Heigham, Kirsi Allison-Ampe and Judson Pierce voted no. Jeff Thielman was absent.
“Please … it’s the last day!” Sean pleaded after the votes were tallied...
...There is even a Massachusetts law making daily recitation of the pledge mandatory, but that law is routinely ignored because it contradicts federal court decisions that say compelling someone to say the Pledge of Allegiance violates freedom of speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at wickedlocal.com ...
“at the risk of being flamed...
mandatory reciting of a pledge or oath means nothing.”
I agree.
Stand and pledge anyway.
When the board calls it ‘school disruption’,respond that you are taking a page from Bill Ayers playbook and practicing ‘political dissent’.
Turn the tables on the left and they get real agitated.
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DO THIS: Organize the parents - secretly - and have a student walkout. Keeping this secret is of the utmost importance. If the school gets wind of your plans .. it will defeat the plan.
For every student who doesn’t show up at the school - THE GOVT WILL NOT PAY THE SCHOOL FED DOLLARS. Everything is based on the number of students.
While you’re organizing the parents - prepare for home schooling. Some parents will not be able to stop working, but those parents who are regularly home can be organized to teach a few children in each of their homes, and it’s a good time to teach them the difference between Liberty and Tyranny.
This method was tried in an Oregon city - and it scared the fire out of the school - and it only took a few days of no students (I believe) before THE SCHOOL CAVED to the parents wishes. The Oregon families did this perfectly. They had everything all set up and the school was in SHOCK when no students showed up.
Plus, tipping off the press only on the first morning of the protest also helps. There are the students and parents with their signs telling the story of how this school will not allow the students to recite the pledge. Powerful!
MONEY TALKS - USE IT!!
We said the Pledge when I was in junior high, and I remember saying it some in 9th and/or 10th grade (1984/1985). I know we said it at assemblies in 11th/12th.
from the above post...
There is even a Massachusetts law making daily recitation of the pledge mandatory, but that law is routinely ignored because it contradicts federal court decisions that say compelling someone to say the Pledge of Allegiance violates freedom of speech.
perhaps an apology from you is in order...
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thanks
teeman
Yes, I’m sorry you can’t understand that you are the only one who thinks this is about making the pledge mandatory, even SCOTUS and the teen promoting the pledge realize it should be voluntary.
Compelling someone to support NPR and PBS is a violation of the First Amendment.
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