School Permission Slips for Pledge of Allegiance

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The very thought that schools have moved away from The Pledge is disturbing. The fact that bringing back the Pledge of Allegiance, but only once a week, bothers me. But the worst part of this whole story is that the school's principle felt it necessary to send home permission slips before allowing the kids to recite The Pledge.

The Edward Devotion School hasn't even recited the Pledge of Allegiance for seven years. The thought, according to Gerardo Martinez (the principal), was that permission slips ought to be sent home to encourage parents to have a discussion with
their kids about the Pledge.

Is this a case of the school trying to "encourage" the parents on how to raise their children?And since when should a permission slip be sent home for The Pledge? Does the principal deem the Pledge of Allegiance to be something dangerous? Something radical?

Well, his idea of permission slips for reciting The Pledge set off a few parents, and so he back pedaled and later sent out a second note to parents explaining that it was not mandatory to sign the permission slips

The school, which is in the Boston area, seems not to be following Massachusetts state law, for the law says that teachers must lead their classes in daily pledges at the start of school.

Under Brookline school policy, the recitation may take place weekly.

And yes, I can see the liberals foaming at the mouth from here, trying to spit out that the Pledge of Allegiance actually began long ago by the urgings of a socialist in the hopes of creating a nationalist attitude in the States. The Pledge was even recited, at that time, with Nazi-style salutes by the children. But before we let the liberals trash America too much, like they love to do, let me remind them that the greatness of American Patriots took what was meant to be a national socialist salute, and turned it into a patriotic pledge that resides close to our hearts.

Once again the patriots of America are victorious. With our exceptional spirit of liberty, we always seem to be able to turn things originally created to destroy us into a beloved show of patriotism.

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