[nunya bidness]

By effectively shutting out even the slightest mention of a Higher Authority than the State from "acceptable discourse", we make possible the day we effectively deny the basis for our freedom, for our self-government.

Anna, you're soaking in it. That was my point.

[nunya bidness]

Endnotes are at the end of the essay. Let me know if you have trouble finding them.

[AnnaZ]

Maybe I did miss your point... that the pledge is the least of our worries? Or just purely symbolic of allllll the rot beneath?

 

I do not believe in blanket fedgov schools for the nation. Not at all. I think it's a State issue. But I just don't see them going anywhere, anytime soon. And they will only get worse. But at least they might get emptier -- which is the sliver of hope I hold onto. Perhaps they'll get emptier faster, on a pace with the increasing emptiness of the educational fare.

 

The "rescued" students will, of course, have to deal with the publik skool products later on. (As will we, when we're too old and creaky to do a damn thing about it, LOL!)