Connellsville Area School District in Connellsville, PA....their Patriot Club is selling these signs

[Freedomofspeech]

I find this so offensive.


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[MLAA]

1. Wouldnt it be cool if by morning

they read:

This house stands for racism?

[Freedomofspeech]

2. It's what it should say.

The school should not be involved in politics...this is so divisive. Last year they had a Hillbilly night at a basketball game and chanted Build the Wall at black players on the other team.

[Freethinker65]

3. Um, ...the land of the FREE!!!!!..with liberty and justice for ALL!!!!!!!

Guess they vote Democratic.

*****I honestly read it as the House stands/exists because of those things (not anything about the people living inside it)

[GulfCoast66]

4. I get your point

But if we become the party IN FAVOR of sitting for the two, what are our electoral chances?

I support those who kneel. I stand and alway will.

[Freedomofspeech]

8. My point is the school should not be involved in selling these signs.

[strongermessage]

16. I didn't see anything where FreedomofSpeech said anything whatsoever of being IN FAVOR...

of sitting for the Pledge or the National Anthem. What I did see was that a school district, which is to be non-partisan, allowed a sponsor of a club, under the guise of raising funds, to interject and display his or her political beliefs throughout the community.

[GulfCoast66]

23. I understand and Im one sense agree

But in many of the places I have lived, huge majorities of both political parties would find the idea that standing for the anthem is in anyway political is just crazy. It is just what people do.

I do not agree with that assessment. But it is an issue that can do nothing but hurt us.
These are areas of the country it is looking like we may complete in for the first time in a generation. This issue would not be worth falling on our sword.

[LanternWaste]

21. Who is arguing the Democratic party wants to be in favor of sitting for the two?

Who specifically is arguing the Democratic party wants to be in favor of sitting for the two?

[strongermessage]

26. No one that I have seen.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. Connellsville is one of those PA towns where reporters love to go on Cletus safaris.

They're about as fanatical for Trump as you can get down there in Fayette County. We've always referred to them as the Fayette Cong.

[Freedomofspeech]

10. You are right...

Unfortunately, Westmoreland Co. is just as bad now.

[struggle4progress]

6. meh

[SharonClark]

7. Maybe the new Real Patriots Club

Should sell the sign "this house supports the Constitution".

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Exactly.

[mythology]

11. So they can get political if you approve.

People are allowed to disagree.

[Freedomofspeech]

14. Of course bit what is political about the Constitution ?

[strongermessage]

17. The point is that school districts should not be making political statements.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I have no problem with the signs so long as...

...they also sell signs for the neighbors which read, “Okay, so what’s your point?”

[MariaCSR]

13. My mother was born and raised in Connellsville, PA.

I wonder what she'd think of this, may she rest in peace.

[jalan48]

15. Look for it to be a big issue in the mid-terms. Republican's are masters at this stuff.

[hexola]

18. Promotes religion - what about the kids who don't stand due to faith?

This is maligning the kids who don't stand for religious reasons - and pushes this action closer to state endorsed religion.

[hexola]

19. The outskirts of Shithole, PA...

I live in S Central - I know of what I speak...

[gratuitous]

20. Short answer: Well, la-de-dah for them

It's a fragile kind of patriotism that has to be so defensive. I wonder if they take the pledge seriously, especially that notion of "liberty and justice for all"?

[Orrex]

22. What's the problem?

The person who posts this sign is making a personal declaration, presumably on their own property.

If they want to stand, then good for them. If they don't want to stand, then good for them.

As long as they aren't dictating policy for others, then this is clearly covered by your screen-name.

[strongermessage]

24. The problem is that this sign is being sold as part of a public school fundraiser.

In this sense, the school district is endorsing a political position that would deny the freedom of speech of those who protest and the freedom of religion for those who don't stand because of their beliefs. If someone wants to announce to the world what is on the sign so be it, but public school districts should not be taking partisan political positions.

[Orrex]

25. Ah. Absent a link in the OP, I didn't see that detail.

I thought that "The Patriot Club" was simply some kind of self-congratulating clique within the district, rather than a formal part of the school system.

In that case, the school certainly shouldn't allow it.