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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (52248)	7/3/2002 10:17:58 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No, I'm sorry that is NOT how it works. Not in any of the schools I have been in. I did not even know I had a right to refuse to say it, as a teacher. Apparently I do but I did not know it, and children sure as heck do not know it. The children who say the pledge in our assemblies at our school certainly do not know it. A whole school of children with teachers and the principal rise to say the pledge- and they are going to feel it is optional? I certainly didn't feel it was optional, and I am grown and self opinionated, and ornery about my freedoms. Most children will do anything they can to blend in. I asked my children- jsut now. None of them knew they had a right not to say the pledge. Apparently this is a very "secret" right.