I do appreciate your reply, but doing as you suggested is like wondering if I'm adopted.
It's just never been a situation, let alone a question.
Why, because ignorance is bliss? JK. Well sort of.
I think your heart is in the right place but this has been litigated all the way to the USSC and for many years, and not exactly unknown to most, and any public school that tries to force all students to stand and recite the pledge is going to be, like it or not, dragged into court. And you as a school board member, whether you agree or not, you should make it your business to be informed, to “do your homework” as it were.
If you were to approach the school board with a proposal that would as I am guessing, compel each and every student to both stand and recite the Pledge Of Allegiance, I would think you would also have researched the court cases and have come up with a way to keep your school district out of court and costing your tax payers much in the way of defending lawsuits you are unlikely to win.
But as I mentioned in my former post, I find it somewhat ironic that some here accuse those not saying The Pledge of being socialists or that not requiring students to recite as of being part of “socialist government indoctrination”, however when you read up on the history of the Pledge Of Allegiance, many would be surprised to learn of its and its original writer Francis Bellamy’s, an early social justice warrior, socialist history.
Francis Bellamy was a minister who was thrown out of his Baptist post because of sermons describing Jesus as a socialist. He and his novelist cousin Edward Bellamy* both saw a future for the United States as a country in which the government controlled virtually every aspect of a person's life.
Francis Bellamy (who also wrote for a magazine underwritten by flag sales and therefore stood to gain by having schools require a flag salute each day) and his friends got President Benjamin Harrison to incorporate Bellamy's pledge into the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' arrival in the New World. It has been recited in public schools ever since.
In 1954, amid anti-communist fervor, President Eisenhower and Congress added "under God" at the behest of a Presbyterian minister, George MacPherson Docherty. The Scottish immigrant became better known as a civil rights activist in later years, working with Martin Luther King Jr.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bellamy
if my paranoid friends are anywhere near correct, the inoculations just may BE causing autism and other mental/psychological problems…..the only way for the socialist indoctrination system to survive is for "them" to make SPEDS (special education kids) out of as many as they can via vaccinations
And you are a school board member? Gadz. Between the actual socialists, social justice warriors and America haters on one side and the ignorance you spew on the other, I do not doubt why our public schools are in such trouble.