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To: muzosi who wrote (167567)7/8/2002 12:45:46 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Muzosi, Re: "if you're a 10 year old child of hindu parents who go to a santa clara school and there is a pledge of allegiance in the morning class, you don't think that kid is being forced to say the pledge? or do you suggest that she exercise her constitutional right and leave the class ? as an adult there may not be overt pressure but for children there certainly is."

Now this is getting ridiculous. A 10 year old child, as you already admit, may not be adult enough to exercise their constitutional rights. What makes you so sure, then, that the one phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is going to somehow alter that child's perception of their own culture or heritage? Is the child naive enough not to know their constitutional rights, but perceptive enough for two words of a Nationally respected recitation to cause harm to the child's identity?

Please.

If the Hindu parents are concerned (and by their rights they can be), then they should excuse their child from the Pledge and work something out with the teacher. If I and other parents want our children to be part of a national unity in reciting the Pledge, we certainly won't want our rights taken away by a concerned Hindu parent who can't bring themselves to work things out through the current system.

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