RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 26, 2017 at 9:12 am
You guys are aware that the pledge of allegiance is one of those things only Americans do?... At least, among the countries of the "western world".
It's one of those things that sound very creepy about your school system.
You say it's 2 minutes?... I say it's 2 minutes every day, over 200 days per year... That amounts to hours of useless "patriotic" indoctrination.
If you know your country is good, you stand by it. Just look at what I do concerning Portugal!
I never had to recite anything about the country at school... At most, we had the lyrics to our national anthem in the Portuguese Language textbook and maybe read it out loud once?... In 4th grade, or so...
Is every Portuguese kid disrespectful to their country and the people who have, since the 1100's, lost their lives to defend it, expand it, retain it, govern it?
And yet, here I am, advertising it to you all every chance I get.
Do I really think it's a utopia? No, of course not. It has its ups and downs, but it's a great place to live, an awesome place to visit and has some great food to offer.
[I can get paid, now]
It's one of those things that sound very creepy about your school system.
You say it's 2 minutes?... I say it's 2 minutes every day, over 200 days per year... That amounts to hours of useless "patriotic" indoctrination.
If you know your country is good, you stand by it. Just look at what I do concerning Portugal!
I never had to recite anything about the country at school... At most, we had the lyrics to our national anthem in the Portuguese Language textbook and maybe read it out loud once?... In 4th grade, or so...
Is every Portuguese kid disrespectful to their country and the people who have, since the 1100's, lost their lives to defend it, expand it, retain it, govern it?
And yet, here I am, advertising it to you all every chance I get.
Do I really think it's a utopia? No, of course not. It has its ups and downs, but it's a great place to live, an awesome place to visit and has some great food to offer.
[I can get paid, now]
