Posted on 05/09/2008 9:11:15 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Three small-town eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance.
"My son wasn't being defiant against America," said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota.
Brandt told the Fargo Forum that Thursday's one-day in-school suspension, "was kind of dumb because I didn't do anything wrong. It should be the people's choice."
Kim Dahl said the "punishment didn't fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn't stand, they should've made him write a paper."
She said that Brandt has not been standing all year, and "all of a sudden it became an in-school suspension."
The district today is defending the punishments. The school's handbook says all students are required to stand but are not obligated to recite the pledge.
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Shut up and stand up, kid.
}:-)4
Obama influenced?
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“I’m sorry sir. He will stand the next time...WON’T YOU SON?”
Kids being kids. Make em run laps at lunch and clean school grounds after classes for a week.
“”My son wasn’t being defiant against America,” said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota.”
He was being defiant against the teacher and school. It’s no different than when the gym teacher tells everyone to stand up and stretch. You stand up for the pledge.
I sort of agree that suspension seems harsh, however.
It’s hip to piss on America now.
It is entirely proper for schools to teach patriotism and respect for the country and it’s symbols, and to exact a penalty for those who don’t learn.
The kid is just being a brat.
I’ve heard the “sig-heil” salute was in use here long before the Nazis came onto the stage, and that it was based on the ancient Roman salute.
AHHH, public education continues to show why homeschooling is soooo necessary. why these kids think america is the bad country, I haven’t a clue. they never leave their bedrooms and they think they know the world because of the internet.
You got it!
The Bellamy's and all the other proto-Nazi's who developed thr Pledge agree with you.
Just following Obama’s lead, that’s all.
When I was a kid, we did what we were told to do by the people who were placed in authority over us. Nowadays it all boils down to politics. If the kid doesn’t like the teacher’s politics he can feel free to do whatever the hell he likes, and we agonize over whether he was justified.
1 day in school suspension is harsh...??....omg what kind of punishment is that...??....back in the day we would have been bent over a chair and swatted with a paddle....maybe thats what we need more of to teach todays kids respect...obviously what they have been trying for years now isn’t working..............
Courtesy? What's 'courtesy'?
These Kids’ parents should be smacking their kids.
Amazing.
You live in a nation that affords you more liberty and opportunity than the world has ever known, and you are too damned lazy to stand up and show some respect... My kid came home for doing this, trust me an in school suspension would be the last of his worries.
I’d take his butt the the closest large military cemetary, make him walk, and do maintance all day in that place and when he’s done ask him why he thinks he’s so much more important than all these people who gave their all for this nation. Why he is so damned lazy he can’t show respect for what he has been given, and what was sacrificed so he could even be here.
These parents should be ashamed of themselves for defending their childs selfishness.
Only in the dregs of an excuse of education called the public schools. Which is exactly why my children will NEVER ever set foot inside one as a pupil.
you have got that right....the adults are afraid anymore and the kids no it.....
Obviously their parents didn’t know of this concept.
The little asshats disrespect America and get a free day, something that I don't think they will view as punishment.
Looks more like a reward to me.
On one hand, I'm pretty sure these kids are snotty malcontents who are doing this just to "make a statement" and to be a pain in the @ss.
On the other hand, I have long said that compulsory recitals of the pledge of allegiance have no place in a free nation. Hell -- for that matter, public schools have no place in a free nation, either.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to sit down the next day after the old man found out...
>> It’s hip to piss on America now.
As it was 40 years ago - apples falling from trees.
i’ll second that, and a great idea you have....i am going to have to remember that....
They weren’t required to recite the pledge, just to stand.
>>Obama influenced?
Sure, if Obamawannabe doesn’t have to put his hand over his heart, why should they stand if they don’t feel like it?
They take their cues from the adults around them, who takes cues from the media, ad nauseum.. too bad there are so few good examples left for them these days.
Future liberal-wannabe-leaders in the hutch.
Good for the teacher for calling them out on it. I was actually surprised to read that!
I remember once when I was about 7 or 8.. camping with my parents and cousins, we sang rowdy-school-bus alternate lyrics to the tune of God Bless America, and boy did my Dad give us a talking to about patriotism, sacrifice, and pride in our flag.
I will NEVER forget that.
*grumble*
Sort of like what a respectful American would do at a presentation of the Canadian flag. They would be pledging allegiance to their flag, and you’d be standing only, as a sign of respect.
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amen
It is "treasonous" and "flat earther" to deny the myth of man made global warming. So say RFK Jr. and Pope Al Gore.
Blame the teachers’ union and all the anti-American swill that they expose our children to.
At the age of nine I got tossed out of the Cub Scouts for not learning the Pledge. Had I lived in Hitler's Germany, I probably would have been killed.
When I see our leaders giving away our national wealth to globalists and freedoms to internationalists at the behest of European socialists and to the delight of communists and Islamists, the image of the elite going through the motions as the Pledge to America are utterly phony.
Even if you have religious objections to the later-inserted “under God” bit, at least stand up in respect for the traditions of your country.
Mrs. Dahl’s boy wonder has not been standing all year. How special.
A few weeks ago, I was at Arlington NAtional Cemetery watching the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The National Park Service guy watching the crowd sternly but quietly physically intervened with more than one adult and with children who were not standing. No disrespect tolerated here.
Then an amazing thing happened. After the changing of the guard, the crowd went to leave and they started talking—loudly. My heart sank as I wondered why it was so difficult for my fellow citizens to keep their yaps shut for just a few minutes in a place of reverance.
The guard stopped, clicked his heels, turned to the corwd and admonished them for not keeping quiet. Then he turned and resumed his duties.
You could have heard a pin drop. So many mouths dropped open, I was afraid birds were going to start building nests there.
But, d@mn, it was quiet after that!!!
if anyone has not been to Arlington and witnessed the changing of the Guard they should....i will never forget my first trip there...i was awestruck....God Bless All that have served to keep this country free........
Can't do that these days ...stunts the little darlings freedom of expression.
I think people should always be forced to be patriotic. That treaches them respect.....for force.
This says all you need to know about freedom and how much others will tolerate when it offends them. Pathetic.
i know, we will destroy thier egos...
The government can’t compel this sort of conduct. I’m not sure why schools continue to require students to participate and continue to waste taxpayer dollars litigating this issue.
A typical day in ISS is - bring breakfast to the room and eat it while you're looking at the newspaper in a leisurely fashion. Then IF your teachers know or care that you have one day, then they MIGHT send over your assignments. If they do send your work, you can usually finish it within 30 minutes and have the rest of the day to do as you wish... well, quietly at you desk. Along comes lunch and again, you get to eat at your leisure at your desk while coloring or reading the latest Motor Trend magazine. As long as you have an open book on your desk you can feign reading and take an afternoon nap. Bottom line is you just got yourself a nice little vacation.
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