(February 18, 2019 at 1:21 pm)Yonadav Wrote: Who are we kidding? My parents taught me not to say the pledge of allegiance. But I was taught to be respectful of others while they were saying the pledge. So I stood.
These kids that are sitting are doing it just to make the others feel disrespected. They are being disruptive, and a teacher has a right to tell them to knock it off. It's an issue created by bored malcontents. And don't compare it to the NFL. Kneeling is respectful.
Here's an idea. You're a fucking kid. Respect your elders. Respect teachers. When the teacher tells you to stand up, stand up you little brat. Parents who think that their kids shouldn't have to stand when the teacher tells them to should just keep their brats at home so that the rest of us don't have to put up with them. You think that your kid should be encouraged to defy teachers and elders? Then home school them, assholes. The rest of us don't want to deal with your little fucking brats.
Holy crap.
There is no point in having a free society, adult or child if all of us say, "It is done this way, and that is all there is to it."
Makes me hate that old Gieco Insurance slogan "It's what you do" even more.
The goal of public education should be, to teach facts, not politics, not ideology. The goal of public education should have the goal of teaching kids how to think, NOT WHAT TO THINK.
If all we want to be as human beings are lemmings, clones of each other, there is no need to have pluralism. We could be like North Korea, if kissing ass is works and promotes freedom.
I doubt if you lived in Saudi Arabia, Iran or North Korea you'd want your own kid saying, "Oh well, when in Rome, don't spoil it for the majority".
