Posted on 09/07/2011 2:04:51 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Saying the Pledge of Allegiance has no educational value, a progressive activist group is pushing for Brookline to stop recitations of the pledge in public schools.
Members of Brookline PAX are asking Town Meeting this fall to vote in favor of a resolution calling for the School Committee to rescind its pledge policy and stop it from being recited in schools.
Martin Rosenthal, co-chair of Brookline Pax, said that though the recitation of the pledge is voluntary, there is subtle and sometimes overt pressure on students, especially younger children, to participate, which he said makes his “skin crawl.”
“It just puts kids in an uncomfortable situation,” Rosenthal said. “How do you say that to a 6-year-old. …We just don’t think it belongs in the schools.”
The article Brookline Pax submitted for Brookline’s Town Meeting comes just months after the town’s School Committee approved a revised policy requiring principals to allow a weekly recitation of the pledge during morning announcements. Participation in the recitations is left up to the individuals at the schools.
School Committee Chairwoman Rebecca Stone said the new policy was approved in the spring after discussion began over saying the pledge at the Devotion School, where recitations were not a regular occurrence. While weekly recitations of the pledge had been held at most Brookline Kindergarten through 8th grade schools, the pledge also wasn’t said regularly at the Lincoln School.
While opponents to the School Committee’s new policy, such as Rosenthal, have said the recitations have no educational value, Stone said it has been a historical practice to say the pledge.
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Rosenthal, who has a daughter at Brookline High School, called the pledge a loyalty oath loaded with complex issues such as justice, liberty and religion, in the phrase “under God.”
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Speaking of flags, remember how UMass professor Jenny Traschen called the flag a symbol of death and terrorism and oppression? She aired these views at an Amherst MA Town Meeting on...Monday Sept. 10, 2001.
Red Skelton and the meaning of the Pledge
Any word about banning schools from showing propaganda like
An Inconvenient Truth?
ask these collection of clowns if it is mandatory to pledge allegiance to dumBama, and they’ll say yes’.
And...weekly? When I went to school it was DAILY. Now they don’t want it at all?
“Saying the Pledge of Allegiance has no educational value”
If you cut everything without educational value in public schools, opening to closing bell would span like 30 seconds.
“Rosenthal, who has a daughter at Brookline High School, called the pledge a loyalty oath loaded with complex issues such as justice, liberty and religion, in the phrase ‘under God.’”
He says that likes it’s a bad thing. And maybe it is, but if it were, the pledge itself would be an ant hill compared to the Himalayas of public education as a whole, which even according to the best motivations and under the most easygoing direction represents a burdensome amount of indoctrination and state mind control.
Voluntary isn’t good enough.
Libtards demand that any opposing view be silenced.
What I’m saying is, if we’re going to have government education, might as well include upfront and obvious forced loyaltiy and indoctrination. Plus, people like ceremony. Even the oppressed (in this case by the evil, irresistible phrase “under God”).
loyaltiy = loyalty
If only Kalifornia and Romneychusetts would fall off into the ocean, the world would be a better place! My apologies to conservatives in both states....
This guy probably couldn’t even get himself to wave a flag when they got Osama.
I suggest that each school district in the country open a school where the Pledge is not said. Parents would not only pay for the special “non-education” but also pay for special busing, and continue to pay their taxes that support public education.
Let’s see how many sign up for that...I bet 0 as in zero!
I wonder if his skin would “crawl” in a foxhole...idiot!
The value the Pledge has is that you are using American Taxpayers money to operate your school.
If I lived there you would use the pledge or you would not get my tax dollar.
Question ought be does attending public school in Brookline (or most anywhere else in America these days) provide any educational value.I mean once a child knows how to read-and mark his pay check with his mark—and cipher enough to know if his employer— or the Fed is stiffing him what else can a pubic school teach?— How to put condoms on a banana —or maybe where to get the girl you got pregnant an abortion?
Brookline Pax and all those like them make MY skin crawl. All of them are everything that is wrong with this country!
Call to halt [Pledge of Allegiance] paying taxes [in] to support Brookline schools goes to Town Meeting
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