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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn't born in this country and I am uncomfortable about the idea of my kids doing it[/quote]

This is why many of us are frustrated.  You want to come here and benefit from the economy and from the protection of your rights, but don't feel "allegiance"?  This is a civic ritual, and if it "brainwashes" kids into valuing "liberty and justice for all", I'm good.[/quote]

I was also not born here and neither were my children and I find it weird too, I'm sorry. We love it here, we (the adults) feel allegiance to the ideas set out in the pledge (not including the god part which feels unnecessary to me), but I don't expect my children to feel that when they can barely understand the words. They learned about the pledge in pre-k and learned the words then, and I'm fine with that, but I would be very uncomfortable with them having to recite it every day as a ritual. If when they are old enough to understand it they wish to say it, then that is fine with me. But mindlessly reciting a promise every day that they cannot possibly understand feels really uncomfortable to me, and similar to how I would feel if they were made to say the Lord's Prayer every day. [/quote]

See, be real. I am an immigrant too. If you choose to enroll your kid in a Catholic school, they will say the Lord's prayer daily. If you choose to come to this country, don't feign surprise about these things, just go back to where you came from, where you apparently have such a high level of personal rights.[/quote]

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