Teachers not standing for pledge

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, with your kids, do a home lesson on WV v Barnette. You can learn something, and explain to them how you tried to be patriotic by getting mad at the teachers and whiffed, because their right to not stand for the pledge is a good example of what makes the country great.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”

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I'm about to start a next career in public school teaching. I look forward to educating my students on their civil rights including the right not to salute the flag every morning like a fascist robot.

Thank you. We need more open minded teachers. I complained to elementary school admin twice about substitutes who would stop the class after the pledge and berate the students who didn't put their hands over their hearts and recite it. One of my kids would sit quietly. I think any teacher or sub who does this should be fired. I was going to file complaints if it happened again.

Let me guess middle age white women…

Bro what dose race have to do with this....? its an opinion. Let me guess a person who has no self respect for themselves?

[Anonymous]

Bless your heart

[Anonymous]

The pledge is dumb. There is not liberty and justice for all. Teachers should not be tasked to support nationalism.

[Anonymous]

I don't usually agree with them theologically, but I think the Jehovah's Witnesses get this right. Pledging allegiance to an object to is idolatry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, with your kids, do a home lesson on WV v Barnette. You can learn something, and explain to them how you tried to be patriotic by getting mad at the teachers and whiffed, because their right to not stand for the pledge is a good example of what makes the country great.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”

+1

I'm about to start a next career in public school teaching. I look forward to educating my students on their civil rights including the right not to salute the flag every morning like a fascist robot.

Thank you. We need more open minded teachers. I complained to elementary school admin twice about substitutes who would stop the class after the pledge and berate the students who didn't put their hands over their hearts and recite it. One of my kids would sit quietly. I think any teacher or sub who does this should be fired. I was going to file complaints if it happened again.

Let me guess middle age white women…

Bro what dose race have to do with this....? its an opinion. Let me guess a person who has no self respect for themselves?

Why resurrect a thread from last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I don't pledge any allegiance to a flag. And certainly not "under god."

I pledge for ethics, human rights, education, kindness, among other humanist values.

i am a teacher and i do not stand for the pledge. i DO teach my students to be kind, inclusive, critical thinkers and respectful of one another.

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The whole point of the pledge of allegiance is it's optional. We're America, the land of the free!

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Isn't it great that the SC ruled on this a long time ago so we don't have to worry about it anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't it great that the SC ruled on this a long time ago so we don't have to worry about it anymore?

The new corrupt SCOTUS might reconsider this now that the constitution has been thrown out.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't it great that the SC ruled on this a long time ago so we don't have to worry about it anymore?

The new corrupt SCOTUS might reconsider this now that the constitution has been thrown out.

I sincerely hope not.

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I'm a foreigner, so you can tell me to push off if you want Respectfully, isn't a daily pledge a little too much?

In my European home country, we rise for our national anthem, honor our fallen, have parades and feel very patriotic. But I can only imagine that if there was a daily pledge in schools, everyone would fight back against it. We'd feel like Big Brother was watching us. Surveillance State and all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I don't pledge any allegiance to a flag. And certainly not "under god."

I pledge for ethics, human rights, education, kindness, among other humanist values.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher. I sometimes stand and sometimes sit. Students are the same. I do not care. Especially in this political climate. How can we ask them to stand and recite "truth and justice for all" and then watch their classmates families get sent away without any due process?

Also, OP, I don't stand or remove my baseball cap when I go to the Nats games. So be sure to tell WJLA to investigate Nats fans as well.

[Anonymous]

It’s not mandatory. Teachers and students can exercise the for right to choose not to pledge. It’s controversial in many faith systems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole point of the pledge of allegiance is it's optional. We're America, the land of the free!

Well, we WERE the land of the free, sort of. Now we definitely are not.