Posted on 08/24/2018 11:26:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School Principal Lara Zelski decided students will no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the school’s morning meeting agenda, which she described to parents as “an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community.”
“Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community were choosing to not stand and/or recite the pledge,” she wrote, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
The statement, posted to the school website, promised parents students could recite the Pledge of Allegiance later in the day, if they felt like it, and vowed to create better pledge specifically for the school.
“Teachers and the K-5 leadership team will be working with students to create a school pledge that we can say together at morning meeting,” Zelski wrote, adding that it “will focus on students’ civic responsibility to their school family, community, country and our global society.”
“I’m really looking forward to what our students create,” she wrote, according to TheBlaze.
The move infuriated parents and quickly gained the attention of Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, and others who denounced the decision.
“I’m sure our House Education Committee will examine whether taxpayer funds should be used to instill such a divisive ideology in our students,” Ralston posted online, the AJC reports.
In less than a day, school officials reversed course.
Zelski’s announcement was wiped from the school’s website and replaced with a statement from Lia Santos, chairwoman of the school’s governing board.
“In the past, the Pledge of Allegiance was recited during our all-school morning meeting, but at the start of the school year, the daily practice was moved to classrooms. This change was done in compliance with state law … and aligned Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School with most other schools in the state who also say the Pledge of Allegiance in individual classrooms.
“However, it appears there was some miscommunication and inconsistency in the rollout. Starting next week, we will return to our original format and provide our students with the opportunity to recite the Pledge during the all-school morning meeting,” Santos wrote.
According to the AJC:
The state DOE policy demands that schools set a time for the pledge, each school day, at the beginning of the school day or during the homeroom period. But students may not be compelled to recite the pledge, it adds.
Districts across metro Atlanta abide by both aspects of the policy – doing the pledge and giving the right to not participate.
Janice Crouse, conservative analyst and author of “Children at Risk,” told One News Now the situation serves an important lesson for parents.
“I think parents should take heart … in that the administration was forced to change their minds and go back to having the Pledge of Allegiance,” she said. “And I think parents can learn from this that they do need to speak out, and they do need to know what’s going on so that they can speak out.”
And some wonder why assimilation no longer occurs
I’d like to know why the treasonous commie b1tch who tried to chip away at the United States has not been demoted to scrubbing toilets...
The subversive endeavors of tax payer funded public schools gets a bit tiring over time.
Are any 5th graders taking a knee or raising a fist during the Pledge? If not now, it’s coming soon. Yecch.
One word: de-fund.
Have they canned the principal yet?
Dear Comrade Zelski:
You are cordially invited to take your intellectually depraved worldview and exit my country.
Venomously,
>> “an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community.”
Absent-minded nonsense.
This dangerous fool is adopting the exclusions and discontinuity the Left is advancing.
Yes it does.
And this is a win for our side; legislators and mst importantly parents made the difference. The garbage coming out of universities for the past 30+ years is appalling but we can fight it successfully with actively involvd parents.
Way back in my days in the 1960's parents had every right to sit in on classes with 24 hour notice to the principal. The teachers were a little intimidated at times but it kept them honest.They really didn't have an option unless the principal had some overriding reason why the parents shouldn't be permitted on a particular day, which I don't think ever happened. It was not uncommon to see a parent parked in the back row of a classroom. In those days it was all about teaching "sex" in the classroom so health and science classes often had a "parent monitor" lurking in the back hehehe.
You can't change the minds of a libtard teacher/administrator but you can monitor them to the highest degree possible and SPEAK UP when they step over the line. Talk to your children about school and in a friendly way find out if there is anything troubling to them or to you as a parent.
[Parents fight back after school drops Pledge of Allegiance for student-authored oath to ‘global society’]
Sounds awesome. Now, just need some Anti-Messiah and a False Prophet. Don’t worry, it’s 999. You’re just reading it upside-down. Now you can buy and sell. You DO want to be able to buy and sell, don’t you, comrade?
exactly- this is an effort to advance one world government ideology
And they’re hiding in plain sight.
Not a win when the little ones are deciding whether they’ll recite the Pledge or not. Egads, what has our country come to, when we allow children to run the show?
You are cordially invited to take your intellectually depraved worldview and exit my country.
Venomously,
Add my name to this missive as well please.
It looks like the Lord of the flies are being led by the pied piper.
“Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community were choosing to not stand and/or recite the pledge,”
And ‘educators’ are responsible for this cultural, social CRIME. By destroying love of country and removing the heritage of this great nation, these so-called ‘teachers’ are absolutely destroying the very foundation of the United States of America.
We were reminded, some time back, that we are always only one generation away from losing this grand experiment. We may well be there, people.
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Take a knee
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