View Full Version : Why is our Federal Gov. funding PUBLIC schools that dont say the Pledge?
toeknee
May 27th, 2009, 4:03 am
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Anybody else have this going on in their local PUBLIC schools?
toeknee
May 28th, 2009, 12:24 am
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Anybody else have this going on in their local PUBLIC schools?
Good, it must only be here in Alaska where the Federal Gov. lets anything go! :))
dave rogers
June 17th, 2009, 2:34 am
Good, it must only be here in Alaska where the Federal Gov. lets anything go! :))
I live in Alaska as well. When I was working on a construction site on Ft. richardson this last summer I was priveledged to get to hear the pledge of allegence said by the school kids every morning. I would stop working for a few minutes to listen. It was like sweet music to me. It was even broadcast out over the loud speaker.
toeknee
June 17th, 2009, 5:55 am
I live in Alaska as well. When I was working on a construction site on Ft. richardson this last summer I was priveledged to get to hear the pledge of allegence said by the school kids every morning. I would stop working for a few minutes to listen. It was like sweet music to me. It was even broadcast out over the loud speaker.
The Public School that my nice goes to (in town) lets her and a few others that want to say the Pledge go to the Library so they dont bother the other students every morning! :wall:
GOD Bless the Troops and their Kids that are PROUD to say the Pledge!:flag:
SignWatcher
June 17th, 2009, 2:26 pm
Yes, sir, I totally agree!! What a blessing it is to hear the foundational beliefs and practices of our country appreciated so much. May God richly bless you and your family and friends. I love you all.
SignWatcher, Pasadena, Texas
zstar4gop
August 5th, 2009, 8:04 pm
God bless our troops, our flag & our country.
pinqy
August 8th, 2009, 1:34 pm
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the price is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
We think the action of the local authorities in compelling the flag salute and pledge transcends constitutional limitations on their power and invades the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from all official control.
West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette 319 U.S. 624 (1943) (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/319/624.html)