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Again, no one is required to stand if they don't want to. THe flaw is that those who don't want to participate in it don't want to "feel" left out hence the system has to turn around to cater to their feelings. Don't do it if you don't want to and stand by that decision with confidence. Really, no one cares if you're standing or not. [/quote]

Currently, the system is catering to your feelings that this is a worthwhile group activity for schools to do.

One can equally well say - The flaw is that those who want to say the pledge don't want to "stand out" hence the system has to turn around to cater to their feelings. Do it if you want to and stand by that decision with confidence. [b]Really, no one cares if you're standing or not.[/quote][/b]

That's not true. Many teachers do require it even though they are not supposed to (including one on this thread). There was a case in Florida a few months ago where a substitute teacher required a boy to stand and the boy was subsequently arrested. As far as I know the teacher faced no repercussions. Students are taught to listen to their teachers and authority figures. They aren't taught that they should listen in school except for this one time at the beginning of the day. If no one cared one way or the other it wouldn't be a big deal, but that's not how it is in actuality.[/quote]

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