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To: goldworldnet who wrote (193054)	10/17/2001 12:06:31 PM
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (193054)	10/18/2001 11:43:38 AM
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A commitment to the pledge James Walsh -- Star Tribune Published Oct 18 2001 The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District has agreed that the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited every day in each of its buildings, school officials said Wednesday. The decision by Superintendent John Haro means students now will have the opportunity to say the pledge in middle schools and high schools. Elementary students in the district were saying it daily even before the Sept. 11 attacks, said district spokesman Tony Taschner. Haro's decision also means that the Apple Valley American Legion, which was withholding the $80,000 to $100,000 it gives to the district because the pledge was not required, now will resume its support. "I'm real happy with the decision," said Duane Glum, commander of American Legion Post 1776. The new policy, an administrative decision Haro announced to principals on Monday and made effective Wednesday, will allow individual schools to decide when and how to incorporate the pledge into the day. Taschner said some schools may decide to recite the pledge in the morning. Others may include it in their social studies classes. Individual students are not required to recite it. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that schools cannot make it mandatory for students. But the new policy makes it mandatory for schools to offer the pledge each day, Taschner said. School board member Judy Lindsay moved to require the pledge in Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan schools at the board's Sept. 24 meeting. The motion was sent to the board's policy review committee. That committee recommended Tuesday that the pledge be offered daily in all district schools, Taschner said. That recommendation will go to the full board Oct. 22. Taschner said that while the district "was heading in this direction," parents and students have been especially pushing for the pledge since that September school board meeting. "They said, 'Let's just go ahead and do it,'" he said. Glum said his American Legion Post wanted the board to adopt an official policy to ensure that student interest in reciting the pledge didn't fade after the fervor over the terrorist attacks has died down. Wednesday morning, the Legion got its wish. "It's happened, it happened today," Glum said. It may start happening soon in other districts as well. St. Paul school board member Tom Conlon said Wednesday that he plans to propose a policy requiring the Pledge of Allegiance to be offered in all elementary schools. Conlon will make a motion at the board's Oct. 23 meeting to send it to committee. St. Paul does not now have a policy addressing the pledge, officials say. Minnesota has no Pledge of Allegiance law, although many elementary school students regularly recite it. A survey by the Minnesota School Boards Association showed that 169 of 230 districts responding reported a tradition of having students recite the pledge. Nationwide, 24 states require it during the day, seven make it optional and three allow it to be read or posted, according to the Education Commission of the States. startribune.com * * *