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Fargo (ND) School Board votes 7-2 to no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance
Valley News ^ | 8/10/22

Posted on 08/11/2022 1:17:56 PM PDT by redguyinabluestate

The wrestling match over the Pledge of Allegiance at Fargo School Board meetings has reached a resolution. In a 7-2 vote on Tuesday, the school board moved to not recite the pledge before their meetings.

The debate goes back to February when a motion to have the Pledge recited at meetings, brought forward by board member David Paulson, died for a lack of a motion for a second. The matter worked its way back to a March board meeting, where it passed. The Pledge has been recited at the start of each board meeting since April 12.

Board Vice President Seth Holden then requested that the issue be discussed again at the board meeting on August 9, saying he wanted to rescind the March decision after hearing comments from board members and the public. Holden says the Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t align with the school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion values.

(Excerpt) Read more at valleynewslive.com ...


TOPICS: US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: creepstate; davidpaulson; deepstate; fargo; northdakota; policestate; scrolldown; sethholden; singlepartystate
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Board Members

Name: Melissa Burkland
Email: burklam@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 414-530-7907

Name: Katie Christensen
Email: christk3@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-388-7369

Name: Greg Clark
Email: clarkg1@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-212-0703

Name: Nyamal Dei
Email: dein@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-318-5167

Name: Nikkie Gullickson
Email: gullicn@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-412-8141

Name: Seth Holden - Vice President
Email: holdens@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-388-2782

Name: Jim Johnson
Email: johnsji@fargo.k12.nd.us
Work: 701-232-7481 Ext. 121 Cell: 701-200-4794

Name: Robin Nelson
Email: nelsonr@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 701-238-1188

Name: Dr. Tracie Newman - President
Email: newmant1@fargo.k12.nd.us
Cell: 612-998-1727

1 posted on 08/11/2022 1:17:56 PM PDT by redguyinabluestate
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To: redguyinabluestate

Let me guess, they don’t open with a prayer either.


2 posted on 08/11/2022 1:20:00 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: redguyinabluestate

Which two voted no? Recall the rest


3 posted on 08/11/2022 1:20:23 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: redguyinabluestate

Put the 7 through re-election, wood chipper hell.


4 posted on 08/11/2022 1:21:14 PM PDT by FLNittany
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To: redguyinabluestate

Let the two recite the Pledge every meeting, and have it filmed.


5 posted on 08/11/2022 1:25:20 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Five of them are perverted sickos who need to be recalled but the Dakota citizens are pussys..


6 posted on 08/11/2022 1:25:29 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: redguyinabluestate

The miserable “diversity code” can go to hell in a handbasket.


7 posted on 08/11/2022 1:29:01 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: BigEdLB

OK..it is not that hard to run for a school board. So the folks up there should be lining up to run.


8 posted on 08/11/2022 1:30:04 PM PDT by crz
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To: redguyinabluestate

Wow I just looked up the first two names on that list. All I can say is the voters of Fargo must be brain dead.


9 posted on 08/11/2022 1:30:52 PM PDT by Varda
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To: redguyinabluestate

Uff da! This is not good.


10 posted on 08/11/2022 1:32:43 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: redguyinabluestate

Do they sing the internationale or horst wessel lied instead?


11 posted on 08/11/2022 1:39:39 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: redguyinabluestate

School boards going way outside their job description in places they have no right to go


12 posted on 08/11/2022 1:39:49 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ConservativeInPA
You can always open with your own prayer.

Do you honestly want educators who push CRT to lead your child in some religious manner? Do you want an atheist teacher to do that? If you are Southern Baptist, do want a Mormon to tackle the job?

People who want prayer in school are terribly misguided.

13 posted on 08/11/2022 1:48:49 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: redguyinabluestate

Melissa Burkland: ...
In 2017, we moved back to Fargo when I started my dream job as an Assistant United States Attorney in Fargo’s United States Attorney’s Office.

Bruce Reinhart: ... he left the South Florida US Attorney’s Office with effect on January 1, 2008, and the next day started working for Epstein’s cohorts.

The employees he represented were Epstein’s scheduler, pilots, and Nadia Marcinkova, a lady he referred to as his “Yugoslavian sexual slave.”

He worked as a Trial Attorney for the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1988 to 1996. However, he got the opportunity through the Attorney General’s Honors Program.

He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in West Palm Beach from 1996 to 2008.

Where do we get these winners in the Feral Assistant District Attorney.


14 posted on 08/11/2022 2:01:11 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Demonetize the Left. Buy nothing from them. Sell nothing to them. Shun them.)
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To: redguyinabluestate
Holden says the Pledge of Allegiance doesn’t align with the school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion values.

...with liberty and justice for all .

15 posted on 08/11/2022 2:05:09 PM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: chopperk

They may change this when the Third World War starts and America starts to lose big. When backs are too the wall and the enemy is at the gates, people start to realize how patriotic they are. Funny how that operates.


16 posted on 08/11/2022 2:08:14 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: redguyinabluestate

Unfortunately, while North Dakota is a mid-American state, it does have a history of leaning socialist.


17 posted on 08/11/2022 2:15:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: redguyinabluestate

“Board member Seth Golden said that because “the word ‘God’ in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance is capitalized … the text is clearly referring to the Judeo-Christian god and therefore, it does not include any other faith such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, all of which are practiced by our staff and students.””

I’ll bet the same people who opposed the capital letter “G” in God are perfectly fine with capitalizing the letter “B” in newspaper articles written about black people.


18 posted on 08/11/2022 2:15:16 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: redguyinabluestate

Well, considering that we no longer have equal “liberty and justice for all...”

...I’ll pledge to this Republic as “one nation, under God”.

Period.


19 posted on 08/11/2022 2:16:30 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Uea...remember aftet 9-11? Gonna take that kind of incident to wake people up


20 posted on 08/11/2022 2:28:18 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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