A total left-wing loon I happen to know moved to Bellingham back in the late 1990s. Her life pretty much fell apart there, but she stays there. Which is actually OK for me.
>>will be allowed to sing or not sing
so students are not obligated to sing that offensive G-word,
apparently.
Ah, the new Nationalism! No one comes before BigGovernment not even God!
(see my tagline)
Lee Greenwood should issue this followup statement:
“I’m sorry, this is too little, too late. You are expressly forbidden to sing my song at your school. You will have to deal with the disappointment of the children and the anger of their parents as a result of your abject stupidity. YOU brought this upon you own heads, deal with it yourselves without my song and your continued attempt to leave out its principal component.”
“...“It’s unfortunate that a small mis-understanding has snowballed to this level,”...
It’s not a “small understanding”.
It is yet another demonstration that liberals, and especially liberal “educators” are ignorant dorks.
The sooner they are fired, the better...so that they can do something more attuned to their education....ditch digger.
MAJORITY RULES!
The “public school” is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children like you can.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
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“It’s unfortunate that a small mis-understanding has snowballed to this level,” Bellingham School Committee member Cheryl Gray told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Thursday.
“The Pledge of Allegiance is said daily in our classrooms, so, personally, I see no reason to have changed the lyrics of the song.”
Gray said she does not know why the lyrics were changed in the first place.”
In other words -
~We got caught.~
What will they do with “God Bless America?”
Really? Really? Oh, thank you!!! (sarc)
The “real” Bellingham is in Washington State.
Well, find that person, grill him/her as to where they get off being a self-appointed censor and tell them they will be fired (if union, they will be "taunted a second time") and, at a minimum, a reprimand entered into their folder. Unless these people are slapped down, however softly (i.e. you are now being watched) they will continue to pull this crap.
Actually the Pledge of Allegiance was written without the words “under God”. God was inserted into the pledge.
You can easily tell because it throws off the cadence. The Knights of Columbus led the charge to have “under God” added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Hmmmm - sounds like somebody got their hindquarters singed just a bit.
Bullsh*t. You communists got caught, and that is the ONLY thing you are sorry about. America has your number, Massachusetts.