Posted on 10/08/2017 3:12:33 PM PDT by Morgana
CONVERSE, Texas - A Judson High School student said his teacher is challenging his silent protest to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance.
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The pledge is a product of a socialist mindset. It should be ignored or eliminated.
Bring back prayers
Look at his ears closely.
Today, he risks being elected prom queen.
Nope.
It's settled law. And not an obscure one for someone in the education profession.
About as stupid as forcing him into a class with only black kids in it.
Are private schools able to set their own internal policies?
Free speech means all sorts of things can be said. Doesn’t mean you have to agree or listen
Exactly!
Then we become the dhimmi, if we even live.
India doesn't have to like it but she can stand like everyone else or stay home, which is probably what she wants. Time for a test case. Bring it on libs. (And bring back corporal punishment.) 
The Bellamy salute. His brother Edward (?) wrote `Looking Backward' a socialist wet dream.
OK, India is another Roseanne Parks test case they are fronting to spontaneously refuse to sit in the back of the bus. This one is a Colin, but same/same.
I am well aware of the previous salute to the Pledge of Allegience. I think proper protocol for sitting out the pledge is to stand but not place the hand over the heart IIRC. There are religious sects that foreswear any such oaths. Whatever....We never had any such issue when I was in school. But if kids today want to stand and not recite the pledge, then go for it. What do I care? After a while the whole thing will die out anyway. Kids see that it gets a reaction and continue to do it. If folks just ignore the temper tantrums, then after a while the whole shebang dies of its own inertia.
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