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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 In The News: Patriots, Nazis, Americans, & The Pledge Of Allegiance How does one best honor the freedoms our founding fathers, brave soldiers, and solid citizens have struggled for on behalf of the United States?
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"According to Texas law, students are required each school day to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag and to the Texas flag. The law does not say anything about standing. Students can be excused from saying the pledge, but only with a written request from a parent or guardian." In schools I worked in as a teacher and administrator students were required to stand for the pledge, but not to recite the pledge. By Texas law, they were also required to "observe a moment of silence"...which was intended to be an opportunity to pray... though for obvious reasons we said "to reflect." The Texas district below was challenged by two students and the ACLU for its requirement for students to stand and recite the pledge. I have embedded a video story by KTRK-TV in Houston. Below that, I also included an interesting sampling of the comments in response to this story which represent the spectrum from disgust over these students' objection to an argument that their objection is just the kind of freedom the United States was founded on. According to one of the school board members of this district, "Just let them sit there and be quiet, and if they don't want to, and everybody who knows what's right will stand up and do it." I guess we know where he stands on the issue!  What are your thoughts? Leave a comment below! Posted at 10:58 AM Keywords: In The News , Pledge To Flag , Moment Of Silence , Freedoms , Discipline , Citizenship 4 Comments |
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