Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him

[Pat Mustard]

It's an unconstitutional piece of rabble rousing rhetoric more suited to somewhere like Nazi Germany.

Lol you are so obsessed with Nazis and calling everyone a Nazi.

Never called you a nazi. I know you're Opus Dei.

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It's weird when it comes to kids because they probably don't understand the words they are saying. Even if you don't force kids to say it (which legally, schools cannot), kids succumb to peer pressure more than anyone, and if most other kids are doing it, they will probably feel left out and do it too, so even when it's not forced it still kinda is.

There's no reason for kids to pledge allegiance to their country in the first place, we don't ask kids to defend it, they can't vote or make any kind of social / economic changes. The only reason they get kids to say it is probably to instill some form of nationalism at an early age.

The reason for the pledge is the same reason the rcc refuses flat out to give up control of Irish primary schools (elementaries for ye Yanks), get them before they can understand the bullshit, and you've got a much better chance they'll stay stupid enough to continue believing the bullshit.