State Law Requires Pledge of Allegiance Be Recited

Gerardo Martinez, the principal of The Devotion School a public school in Brookline, Massachusetts is asking parents to fill out permission slips before their children can participate in a weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.  He informed parents that the school would begin reciting the pledge in January over the public address system.

Attached to the letter was a form that asked parents to check either, “Yes, my child will participate in the weekly Pledge of Allegiance” or “No, my child will not participate in the weekly Pledge of Allegiance.”

The school also sent parents a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance along with a note that defined the words “under God as meaning “there is one Supreme entity for every citizen.”  School officials have said they are in the process of offering some sort of clarification about the school’s policy as well as the definition of the words, “under God.”

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Under state law, teachers are required to lead students in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of every school day. Those who fail to do so for at least two weeks could face fines of up to five dollars.  “It’s never been enforced,” Superintendent Bill Lupini said. “We will not be fining anyone.” 

Why aren’t they enforcing state law?

In the day, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord’s Prayer were said every day in homeroom.  In the day over 90% of the children graduated from high school.  In the day there wasn’t a 40% pregnancy rate among teenage girls.  In the day there weren’t thousands of abortions every day for teenage girls.  In the day America’s schools were rated number 2 in the world and today they are number 14.  In the day there were neither drugs nor the gangs in the schools.

Having said that I can now see where saying the Pledge and the Lord’s Prayer were really harmful to children in the day!  NOT!!

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