Posted on 08/09/2018 12:55:25 PM PDT by Zakeet
An Atlanta charter school headed into the new school year by telling students and staff not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning - but instead the "Wolf Pack Chant."
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School announced on Tuesday it will be eliminating the Pledge of Allegiance from its morning agenda to make the institution more inclusive.
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"There are many emotions around this and we want everyone in our school family to start their day in a positive manner. After all, that is the whole purpose of our morning meeting," Zelski said.
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The Atlanta charter school isn't the first to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance. Bedford Area School District in southcentral Pennsylvania said in April it will not require students to stand for the pledge. School officials cited the students' First Amendment rights as their reason.
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Yes it is a Kipling poem and he was not only a white man but a citizen of the British Empire. I wonder if that school even knows that.
Those kids should go to the zoo and jump the fence and play with the cute little wolfies.
Ehhh - I’m not sure I buy the excuse...
Why still say the wolf pack oath all as one group in the morning gathering but wait til the students get broken up in their classes to say the pledge?
It’s not a time issue... it’s because they wanted certain classes to opt out.
A Wolf Pack conveys extremely violent imagery and as well is a common name for street gangs. Are we sure thats how we want children beginning their day?
You, Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, are exactly what’s wrong with America!
What “school officials?”
Name names please.
>Raising children for failure and to simply take over existing spots in the ghetto.<
Exactly!
>The new goal is the lowest common denominator. The more you aim for it, the lower it gets.<
Another insightful post on this thread.
Just what kind of nitwits run this “school”?
“It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produce ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths.”
WILL DURANT
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
—Voltaire
“That place is total Lefty Land. Trendy in-towners founded the school because they did not want their precious little ones going to classes in majority-black Atlanta public schools. Of course, they wanted SOME black kids—but only carefully selected ones. That’s what they mean by diversity.”
This school is in my neighborhood. You describe the parents perfectly, very liberal, but won’t send their kids to a regular Atlanta school.
Note #37, this may not be the truth about the pledge.
Ever heard of The American Citizens Handbook? Interesting story, from 4-H to NEA (union) in 1941, to a landfill in 1969.
Thank you for that part of the “Wolfpack Chant”. I had never heard of it before.
All I can say is WTF!!!
Are we sure they are not talking about the wolf pack chant from the movie The Hangover? This sounds like that maturity level.
I think that pledge in a bit weak, and a tad stupid. Allegiance to a FLAG? Flags don’t lead of follow. They should recite the Oath of Office like newly minted military officers.
He may not be cofefed about it but I am. Furious is more like how I feel. “With liberty and justice for all” isn’t good enough anymore? My God. How could a country be any better than to give liberty and justice for all? An almost impossible goal, but we have given it a good try for almost 300 years with the help the the Bill of Rights.
How I hate the changes taking place without protest. I am about to become anti-antiFA and antiBLM and antiDem (especially Pelosi and the Mafia Witch Maxine Waters—wait, wait, maybe the Mafia would be offended...DredgerofSewers Maxine Waters might be better...
What it means is, that is no longer a school. Thanks Robert A Cook PE.
The Law for the Wolves
“NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,
And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting and forget not the day is for sleep.
The jackal may follow the tiger, but, cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the wolf is a hunter—go forth and get food of thy own.
Keep peace with the lords of the jungle, the tiger, the panther, the bear;
And trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the boar in his lair.
When pack meets with pack in the jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken; it may be fair words shall prevail.
When ye fight with a wolf of the pack ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel and the pack is diminished by war.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
I'm sure it would have involved my parents, the Principal and a sizable piece of wood.
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