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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.

I hope next time you do that you are standing next to someone recently returned from deployment.

I dont do it based on the people around me, so it wouldn't matter much. I don't respect the former President's decision to invade Iraq on false pretenses. I feel sorry for all the soldiers that had to deploy there because of his greed/personal agenda.

I don't respect it much either. But I do respect the sacrifices that our service people are making over there (now under Obama for the past 6 years) and I respect their ability to punch you in the face when you show such flagrant and purposeful disrespect.

They can try, but they will probably end up on the floor though. FWIW my choosing not to participate is not being disrespectful to what they do for a living. We all (well most of us) contribute to America in our own way....I don't recall the last time I attacked someone for not going out of their way to show respect to what I do for a living...So I guess you are right, many soldiers do lack impulse control, must be a soldier thing...

and FYI since it seems you never picked up on the obvious sarcasm. I don't actually pull out my phone just to spite people during the pledge/anthem. But If I'm already engrossed in something, I don't necessarily drop everything to recite it though. That's my 2 cents.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.

I hope next time you do that you are standing next to someone recently returned from deployment.

I dont do it based on the people around me, so it wouldn't matter much. I don't respect the former President's decision to invade Iraq on false pretenses. I feel sorry for all the soldiers that had to deploy there because of his greed/personal agenda.

I don't respect it much either. But I do respect the sacrifices that our service people are making over there (now under Obama for the past 6 years) and I respect their ability to punch you in the face when you show such flagrant and purposeful disrespect.

They can try, but they will probably end up on the floor though. FWIW my choosing not to participate is not being disrespectful to what they do for a living. We all (well most of us) contribute to America in our own way....I don't recall the last time I attacked someone for not going out of their way to show respect to what I do for a living...So I guess you are right, many soldiers do lack impulse control, must be a soldier thing...

and FYI since it seems you never picked up on the obvious sarcasm. I don't actually pull out my phone just to spite people during the pledge/anthem. But If I'm already engrossed in something, I don't necessarily drop everything to recite it though. That's my 2 cents.

Anonymous wrote:Why do we need to pledge to the flag? Seriously, I am an Old and never understood this (we did it at our DCPS in the 70s).

It feels really fascist to me, and I'm pretty patriotic.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

The exact question I ask myself when I hear whiny parents complain that public school events take place on obscure Jewish holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

The exact question I ask myself when I hear whiny parents complain that public school events take place on obscure Jewish holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

We capitalize God here, pal.

Not PP. You, pal, capitalize god. Many do not.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.

I hope next time you do that you are standing next to someone recently returned from deployment.

I dont do it based on the people around me, so it wouldn't matter much. I don't respect the former President's decision to invade Iraq on false pretenses. I feel sorry for all the soldiers that had to deploy there because of his greed/personal agenda.

I don't respect it much either. But I do respect the sacrifices that our service people are making over there (now under Obama for the past 6 years) and I respect their ability to punch you in the face when you show such flagrant and purposeful disrespect.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.

I hope next time you do that you are standing next to someone recently returned from deployment.

I dont do it based on the people around me, so it wouldn't matter much. I don't respect the former President's decision to invade Iraq on false pretenses. I feel sorry for all the soldiers that had to deploy there because of his greed/personal agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

Maybe instead of you homeschooling, the PP should consider moving to Russia. They sound like they would make a great communist.

1) Is reciting the Pledge mandatory? Is there punishment for not reciting? If the answers are no, then how is it required? Do you or your children use American paper currency? Does inclusion of the phrase "in god we trust" mean you are required to to be religious to engage in commerce?

2) SCOTUS answered this question already. You can find the answer to your question in that opinion.

No-one said it was required...that PP was responding to the person that said her children belonged in a homeschool if they didn't want to participate. Which is preposterous.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

Maybe instead of you homeschooling, the PP should consider moving to Russia. They sound like they would make a great communist.

1) Is reciting the Pledge mandatory? Is there punishment for not reciting? If the answers are no, then how is it required? Do you or your children use American paper currency? Does inclusion of the phrase "in god we trust" mean you are required to to be religious to engage in commerce?

2) SCOTUS answered this question already. You can find the answer to your question in that opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.

I hope next time you do that you are standing next to someone recently returned from deployment.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would the District require this? Another dumb policy.
Do they at least take out the words "under god"?

A better question is, who are the idiot parents who "question" this?

Me, for one. I'm an atheist and don't want my child to be encouraged to pledge to something "under god." That goes against my family's values.

Well isn't that just too bad.

You might want to consider homeschooling.

So now we are required to be religious to attend public school? What happened to separation of church and state?

Maybe instead of you homeschooling, the PP should consider moving to Russia. They sound like they would make a great communist.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you stand, remove your hat, hand over heart, anything during the national anthem? (directed to those who find the pledge fascist, immoral, etc)

No.

I take out my phone and load up candy crush, it's a great way to pass the time until everyone else is finished.

I am partial to Scrabble.