Shut up and stand up, kid.
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Obama influenced?
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Blame the teachers’ union and all the anti-American swill that they expose our children to.
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!!!
I think people should always be forced to be patriotic. That treaches them respect.....for force.
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.