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Grabbing the kid is a big no no and the teacher will probably lose his job or at eh very least have to take a bit of time off and attend a sensitivity class.
If I was the teacher I would have used this as a teaching moment for the entire class by first asking the kid why he choose to sit. I doubt he will have an answer beyond that he is just doing what he has seen NFL players doing.
Violence is not the answer to ignorance but teaching the kids why we recite the pledge might actually instill a bit of pride for their country in them.
If you read the article, you'd see he did have an answer. I know, reading is hard.
Incidentally, if you polled children who did recite the pledge their reasons for doing so, what sort of answers would you get? National pride, patriotism, love of country? Or "I dunno. We hafta".
The funny thing about the comments of some of the righties here is, the pledge says, "... with liberty and justice for all." By forcing somebody to say something they might not want to say, they are are completely ignoring the liberty part of the pledge. Liberty includes the right to dissent, which includes the right to sit out the pledge of allegiance.
Some of the righties here are as statist as the communists they revile. The whole forced-loyalty-to-the-state thing they would like everyone to follow is straight out of Stalin's or Mao's playbook.
Oh yeah, and as I've pointed out before, the pledge, as we (largely) know it today, was penned by a self-proclaimed Christian SOCIALIST. Oh the irony that it's been co-opted by the right as a litmus test of patriotism!
True, true. The people here calling a child "trash" for exercising his most basic American rights here are the real losers. Their lives must be kind of sad for them to read this article (or rather, read a post ABOUT an article because reading an article is hard) and decide this is what is to blame for any perceived downfall of American society.
Grabbing the kid is a big no no and the teacher will probably lose his job or at eh very least have to take a bit of time off and attend a sensitivity class.
If I was the teacher I would have used this as a teaching moment for the entire class by first asking the kid why he choose to sit. I doubt he will have an answer beyond that he is just doing what he has seen NFL players doing.
Violence is not the answer to ignorance but teaching the kids why we recite the pledge might actually instill a bit of pride for their country in them.
Here in The United States of America , in the year of 2017 " Teachers cannot use violence against theirs students ".... this teacher is history and if not it's only because of institutionalized racism....
True, true. The people here calling a child "trash" for exercising his most basic American rights here are the real losers.
The same jack***** who will turn a blind eye when their team signs or drafts someone who BTHO their signicant other, but will throw a fit if a player kneels.
I said nothing about supporting a physical attack nor did I say the boy should be forced to say it. I said he basically deserves to be socially isolated for his anti American racial stance and I said he should be made to leave the classroom during the pledge. He does not have the right to interfere in the long held tradition of saying the pledge during school. The other patriotic children should not be subject to his disruptive nonensense. These BLM morons are flaming bad feelings toward black people, racism is growing at a rate not seen in decades because of thier whining. Tired of them.......
What in the WORLD makes you think this child is part of BLM? Is every black person a member of BLM?
Also - sitting still during the pledge of allegiance isn't exactly 'disruptive'. The Teacher made it disruptive.
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LOL that sitting down during a pledge of allegiance is "disrespecting the nation". I didn't realize the collective nation had such a fragile, fragile ego.
I also didn't realize one random on the internet such as yourself was the voice for the nation. Please, tell us more about the nation! How is it feeling today? is it glum or glad?
Sad!
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Interesting. DanielJ, you are a black man but you don't face any racism in your life? I don't think I've ever heard another black man in the US say that before.
Daniel is special, leading a charmed life with winged unicorns following his every move.
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None of that stuff , outside of affirmative action, has anything to do with being black. The average welfare recipient is a white female.
Your talk about a sovereign nation for minorities is the kind of drivel we've been subjected to since Stormfront got the ax.
With a whole lot of new members.
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If you read the article, you'd see he did have an answer. I know, reading is hard.
Incidentally, if you polled children who did recite the pledge their reasons for doing so, what sort of answers would you get? National pride, patriotism, love of country? Or "I dunno. We hafta".
I mean, that is the answer you would get out of 90% of schoolchildren. I recited it every day but I didn't think about the words, or what they meant; we were all just doing as we were told.
Grabbing the kid is a big no no and the teacher will probably lose his job or at eh very least have to take a bit of time off and attend a sensitivity class.
If I was the teacher I would have used this as a teaching moment for the entire class by first asking the kid why he choose to sit. I doubt he will have an answer beyond that he is just doing what he has seen NFL players doing.
Violence is not the answer to ignorance but teaching the kids why we recite the pledge might actually instill a bit of pride for their country in them.
I hope you would encourage the other kids to read, since you clearly didn't read the article.
Would you also ask the fellow students to explain why they stand?
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