Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit settled

[Scooter24]

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060202/NEWS01/60202003/10

Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit settled

By The Associated Press
Originally posted on February 02, 2006



WEST PALM BEACH - A settlement has been reached between the Palm Beach County School Board and a student who said he was disciplined for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance.
The board voted Wednesday that public students do not have to recite the pledge or stand for it. It also was decided that a letter from a parent is no longer needed to excuse the student from the pledge.

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As part of Wednesday's settlement, Frazier will get $32,500 and Alexandre will be reprimanded in writing.

Alexandre declined comment Wednesday.

[Erika]

1. Where I love my country and its flag

I've always felt forcing children to worship nationalism through the pledge is Nazi like.

[tecelote]

2. Nobody should ever be "forced" to give a "Pledge of Allegiance".

A pledge of allegiance should be voluntary or it is worth nothing.

[shugah]

5. it should also be given by those who know what it means

how many 6 year olds even know what pledging allegiance means?

[mikeytherat]

3. Seeing as how the Supreme Court settled this issue in 1943,

it is nice to see the School Board agrees with 60+ years of established legal precedence.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=319&invol=624

"The board voted Wednesday that public students do not have to recite the pledge or stand for it. It also was decided that a letter from a parent is no longer needed to excuse the student from the pledge."

Way to go School Board, and welcome to 1943! Now, pull your heads out and join the rest of us in 2006 ASAP.

mikey_the_rat

[Demeter]

4. When You Don't Believe In Established Facts, You Are

always re-inventing the wheel. Proof that Fundies are Evolution-resistant.

[mikeytherat]

6. You are right - an evolutionary cul-de-sac they are

It is just maddening that I learned this stuff in Junior High civics, and the members of the School Board did not.

mikey_the_rat

[meti57b]

7. I remember when I was a kid, saying the pledge was just a contest of .....

how many sound-alike words we could work into it.

"I fled a flea-dance .... "

[mikeytherat]

8. I plead alignment with the flakes, of the untitled snakes of a merry cow,

and to the Republicans, for which they scam,
one nacho, underpants, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

- Bongo from Matt Groening's "Life in Hell"

At the end of this declaration, he states to the teacher, "Hey. It's a free country." In the last panel Bongo is duct-taped to a chair facing the corner.

mikey_the_rat