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Atlanta school drops Pledge of Allegiance, asks students to instead recite 'Wolf Pack Chant'
Fox News ^ | August 9, 2018 | Katherine Lam

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; arth; diversity; education; firstamendment; pledgeofallegiance; tribalism; unamericanactivities
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To: Skywise

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.


41 posted on 08/09/2018 1:56:04 PM PDT by marychesnutfan
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To: Zakeet

Those kids should go to the zoo and jump the fence and play with the cute little wolfies.


42 posted on 08/09/2018 1:57:38 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: John S Mosby

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.


43 posted on 08/09/2018 1:59:27 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Zakeet

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?


44 posted on 08/09/2018 2:04:42 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Zakeet

You, Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, are exactly what’s wrong with America!


45 posted on 08/09/2018 2:15:58 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: Zakeet

What “school officials?”

Name names please.


46 posted on 08/09/2018 2:32:08 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: PGR88

>Raising children for failure and to simply take over existing spots in the ghetto.<

Exactly!


47 posted on 08/09/2018 2:51:01 PM PDT by sciencewriter86
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To: Telepathic Intruder

>The new goal is the lowest common denominator. The more you aim for it, the lower it gets.<

Another insightful post on this thread.


48 posted on 08/09/2018 2:53:25 PM PDT by sciencewriter86
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To: sciencewriter86

Just what kind of nitwits run this “school”?


49 posted on 08/09/2018 2:53:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

“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

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
—Voltaire


50 posted on 08/09/2018 2:56:16 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Zakeet
The Pledge is an important element of America’s political culture. Patriotic traditions like the Pledge constitute the cultural exoskeleton which contains and forms the unique American culture for the Nation at large. To discard or disregard this essential element is an act of betrayal, and is evil. It should be treated as such.
51 posted on 08/09/2018 3:06:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: madprof98

“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.


52 posted on 08/09/2018 3:08:59 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: roho

Ever heard of The American Citizens Handbook? Interesting story, from 4-H to NEA (union) in 1941, to a landfill in 1969.


53 posted on 08/09/2018 3:23:33 PM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterto)
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To: alloysteel

Thank you for that part of the “Wolfpack Chant”. I had never heard of it before.

All I can say is WTF!!!


54 posted on 08/09/2018 3:38:53 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Zakeet

Are we sure they are not talking about the wolf pack chant from the movie The Hangover? This sounds like that maturity level.


55 posted on 08/09/2018 3:44:52 PM PDT by Quilla
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To: Sarah Barracuda

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.


56 posted on 08/09/2018 4:12:24 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: piasa

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...


57 posted on 08/09/2018 5:32:38 PM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
What it means is, that is no longer a school. Thanks Robert A Cook PE.

58 posted on 08/09/2018 10:18:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

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)


59 posted on 08/10/2018 12:01:34 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Impala64ssa
I am apparently older than you but I can't imagine what the consequences would have been had I decided not to participate in saying the pledge.

I'm sure it would have involved my parents, the Principal and a sizable piece of wood.

60 posted on 08/10/2018 6:06:18 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Idiocracy is Prophecy!)
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