Speaking of flags, remember how UMass professor Jenny Traschen called the flag a symbol of death and terrorism and oppression? She aired these views at an Amherst MA Town Meeting on...Monday Sept. 10, 2001.
Red Skelton and the meaning of the Pledge
“Saying the Pledge of Allegiance has no educational value”
If you cut everything without educational value in public schools, opening to closing bell would span like 30 seconds.
“Rosenthal, who has a daughter at Brookline High School, called the pledge a loyalty oath loaded with complex issues such as justice, liberty and religion, in the phrase ‘under God.’”
He says that likes it’s a bad thing. And maybe it is, but if it were, the pledge itself would be an ant hill compared to the Himalayas of public education as a whole, which even according to the best motivations and under the most easygoing direction represents a burdensome amount of indoctrination and state mind control.
Voluntary isn’t good enough.
Libtards demand that any opposing view be silenced.
What I’m saying is, if we’re going to have government education, might as well include upfront and obvious forced loyaltiy and indoctrination. Plus, people like ceremony. Even the oppressed (in this case by the evil, irresistible phrase “under God”).
loyaltiy = loyalty
If only Kalifornia and Romneychusetts would fall off into the ocean, the world would be a better place! My apologies to conservatives in both states....
This guy probably couldn’t even get himself to wave a flag when they got Osama.
I wonder if his skin would “crawl” in a foxhole...idiot!
The value the Pledge has is that you are using American Taxpayers money to operate your school.
If I lived there you would use the pledge or you would not get my tax dollar.
Question ought be does attending public school in Brookline (or most anywhere else in America these days) provide any educational value.I mean once a child knows how to read-and mark his pay check with his mark—and cipher enough to know if his employer— or the Fed is stiffing him what else can a pubic school teach?— How to put condoms on a banana —or maybe where to get the girl you got pregnant an abortion?
Brookline Pax and all those like them make MY skin crawl. All of them are everything that is wrong with this country!
Just one more (among many) reason why elections no longer offer us any way out of this acclerating descent into a centuries-long era of tyranny.
“It just puts kids in an uncomfortable situation,” Rosenthal said. “How do you say that to a 6-year-old. …We just don’t think it belongs in the schools.”
Martin, ol' buddy, ol' pal, if saying the Pledge of Allegiance makes your "skin crawl" then, maybe, just maybe, you don't belong in the United States".
And, if you believe that reciting the Pledge puts your children in "an uncomfortable situation", I strongly suggest you leave the country. As soon as possible!
I hear Cuba is nice this time of year. And I understand the health care is "best in the world" and that your children will receive the best education available.
All you'll have to do is pledge allegiance to Fidel Castro and Karl Marx.
Bet Rosenthal supports homosexual education for 6.
Bet Rosenthal supports homosexual education for 6 year olds.
There is only one thing that will end these constant battles. Do away with government schools at all levels.