Atlanta Schools Say No To Pledge Of Allegiance?

zubenelgenubi

I'm a star
Honestly forcing people to say a pledge to a country sounds exactly like something North Korea would do.

Pledging allegiance does have sinister undertones, and undermines individuality. I'm in favor of having kids recite the first paragraph and a half of the Declaration of Independence:

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
 

BrownArmy

Well-Known Member
Pledging allegiance does have sinister undertones, and undermines individuality. I'm in favor of having kids recite the first paragraph and a half of the Declaration of Independence:

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Waaaaay too long to recite, get real.
 

Turdferguson

Just a turd
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bottomups

Bad Moon Risen'
Just an example of the lowering of standards. I guess the constitution is too long to read too, let alone enforce. Let's just line kids up and indoctrinate them to mindlessly pledge loyalty to the state, can't see any potential societal problems arising out of that.
REDRUM
 

El Correcto

god is dead
I don’t give a :censored2: public schools should be abolished anyways. Useless daycare, leave your spawn at home in front of the local news. I’ve heard good things about it recently.
 

El Correcto

god is dead
I got an idea.

We abolish public schools and bring back the telemarketing jobs from India. We can have the children out bidding the foreigners with cheap child labor and doing something useful instead of refusing to pledge alliegence to the country that subsidizes the radical leftist teachers that are indoctrinating them.
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Just an example of the lowering of standards. I guess the constitution is too long to read too, let alone enforce. Let's just line kids up and indoctrinate them to mindlessly pledge loyalty to the state, can't see any potential societal problems arising out of that.
YAWN
 
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