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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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.
Please don’t post personal phone #s and addresses.
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.
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