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.
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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'?
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