We read:
"An Air Force veteran is outraged that her daughter’s school recently announced that students will be asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each day, the Seattle Times reports.
Haley Sides, 26, moved to Seattle after four years in the Air Force so her 6-year-old daughter could attend John Stanford International School, which promotes the same multiculturalism that Sides says she has tried to instill in her half-Jamaican daughter, according to the paper.
But Sides became angry when the school’s new principal announced that students will be asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day before the start of classes. The policy, which has long been mandated by district policy but not traditionally observed at John Stanford , will start Monday.
Students who don't want to participate will be allowed to sit or stand respectfully.
At John Stanford's weekly coffee hour Friday, the pledge was a hot topic of conversation among the dozen or so parents in attendance. Janet Robinson, the PTSA treasurer, argued that its recitation would be an opportunity to talk about an important representation of American freedom and liberty. "It's a symbol of our country," she said.
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I just can't understand the thinking of people like this. Does this intrepid 26-year-old not understand that the flag she hates (and served in exchange for hard currency) is the only thing allowing her to speak this way? She should try tossing this fit in most any middle eastern country or any other dictatorship and see how it plays.
It's simple, really. She needs to recite the Pledge of Allegiance along with her family, or she received zero veterans' benefits. She is given benefits not simply for serving this country, but for protecting what this country stands for. if she's that adamant about not showing loyalty, then she should not be compensated as a veteran.
"She needs to recite the Pledge of Allegiance along with her family, or she received zero veterans' benefits."
So much for free speech. God damn right wingers.
Well, she certainly picked the right place to move to for people who think like she does. This country, that clearly disgusts her, should stop every cent it sends her. Let her go to Jamaica, find a new bed partner, have more kids, and see how much the Jamaican govt. will give her each month. Ya Mon...
Tell the lady to GET A LIFE and quit being such a sour old liberl pansiepod
Jamaica is is a cess-pool of violence without any sense of tolerance to anyone. And much of violence recently seen in some of England's (but not interestingly in any part of Scotland) was clearly seen as influenced by the jamaican-gangster culture now sadly
taking over the youth of under-class Britain.
Why is the social/cultural "influence" in any mix of cultures never top-down but "down-up" when the "up" ought to be more dominant than the "down" -?
Someone should tell the pinhead twit that if she hates the flag that much, stop taking the effing benefits the very same flag provides. Oh, and get the hell out and head on back to Jamaica if it is so awful here.
She once took a vow to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And now she has the nerve to say something like this?
I simply do not buy that
"moved to Seattle after four years in the Air Force so her 6-year-old daughter could attend John Stanford International School"
Surely there are other schools her daughter could attend if reciting the pledge is that unpleasant for her.
Anon 2:48 said, "So much for free speech. God damn right wingers."
It is in no way a freedom of speech to require someone who is receiving government benefits to be loyal to said government.
@1:56AM-Please produce your DD214 or shut the hell up.
Bonus-If you do so will I
I personally recite the pledge in its original form. Like most thing politicians touch, they messed it up when they modified it.
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