Thursday, September 17, 2009

Pledge of Confusion

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It's a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance.

The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right not to recite the pledge in public schools. But now some First Amendment advocates are taking it one step further, arguing that the law compels educators to inform kids at the beginning of school that the decision is entirely up to them.

They're advocating a "Miranda warning" for the Pledge -- an administrative notice to students that they have the right to remain silent...

[I've an idea: let's leave it up to their parents - if they don't want Jr. saying the pledge, a note to the teacher will get him excused.

Of course there's no extra staffing funds my way - never mind.]


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