To: FerdieMurphy
I'm of the opinion that our job isn't to force the kids to recite the pledge, but to make them want to recite the pledge.
2 posted on
06/02/2006 4:18:57 AM PDT by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
3 posted on
06/02/2006 4:20:12 AM PDT by
Tribune7
To: coconutt2000
I'm of the opinion that our job isn't to force the kids to recite the pledge, but to make them want to recite the pledge. Coming soon... ACLU files suit on behalf of children whose parents try to make them want to recite the pledge of allegiance.
To: coconutt2000
"
I'm of the opinion that our job isn't to force the kids to recite the pledge, but to make them want to recite the pledge."
To be able to do that "teachers" would have to teach American history in a positive light.
The precept that our Founding Fathers were nothing but "old dead white guys", unworthy of any adulation, comes with a price.
10 posted on
06/02/2006 4:38:03 AM PDT by
G.Mason
(Others have died for my freedom; now this is my mark ... Marine Corporal Jeffrey Starr, KIA 04-30-05)
To: coconutt2000
Odd, that the entity that they are refusing to pledge allegience to, is the one that protects their right not to recite it.
To: coconutt2000
Agreed. I'm as conservative as they come but forcing kids to recite a pledge seems so, well, fascist to me. If you love your country (or don't) that will be in your heart and no amount of regurgitating phrases in public will change that. It only appeals to the "goose steppers" (left or right) who insist on strict conformity.
You can't just have an "opt-out" option for kids either. If it is something being suggested by the schools and teachers, it will have the stamp of authority and there will be compulsion factor.
What they should do is reinstate civics classes where the kids learn about their country so they can develop "allegiance" on their own.
27 posted on
06/02/2006 6:58:34 AM PDT by
Bob J
(RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
To: coconutt2000
I'm of the opinion that our job isn't to force the kids to recite the pledge, but to make them want to recite the pledge.
Well out.
Mindless recitation doesn't mean anything. Moreover, I happen to believe that it devalues the Pledge.
29 posted on
06/02/2006 7:13:29 AM PDT by
highball
(Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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