Pledge in Santa Rosa County

Watched on WEAR that there is an uproar because there are signs that students are not forced to say the pledge. Since the sign went up the number of students who do not say the pledge went from three to eight.....so the politicians are going to address the same by introducing legislation. I listened to folks spewing what appears to be mandatory conformity, and they cannot understand why ANYBODY would not say the pledge.......it was hilarious to watch......this rote mind numbing chant, and then when a person is asked to understand the constitution which forms this nation.....not a piece of cloth....they attempt to throw that out the window. It was scary listening to some of the comments. We are living in a fascist state......if a kid does not want to pledge based on a number of reasons.....its none of my business.

Yeah long as I don't haft to hear the call to prayer 5 times a day I don't care...

What are they going to do? Arrest the kids who refuse? Probably in Santa Rosa Co. They are all Teoheads.

Yeah long as I don't haft to hear the call to prayer 5 times a day I don't care...


I was in fourth grade when the Supreme Court said no more school prayer. My fourth grade teacher had always lead prayer in our lunch room, and continued to do the same after the Supreme Court made the ruling. I had no problem with prayer at a meal because my entire mother's family was southern baptist and we always said prayers with meals, but as a kid I never thought if any other kid had a problem with the same. You tend to as a kid easily go along with the mob. I remember that same teacher had a one way policy in the classroom going to the cloak room. If you violated the rule, you had to pay a nickle to the class field trip fund where at the end of the year we had a picnic and the fines were applied to treats for the kids. I remember this girl who was a quiet had her parents make a big stink about the teacher collecting a nickle fine from the kids. Well the teacher took it out on this child, and went so far as to say that we would not longer have treats at the class field Trip because SALLY's parents complained to the principal. All the kids ostracized this child, and the teacher tacitly supported the same. It was horrible. Had her parents complained about the prayer at lunch, it also would have been horrible. The constitution is sacred, and the pledge was only created with the words under god in 1954 and was written by a socialist. I say the pledge always at public meetings, but the idea that adults are going to pass legislation to force children to say something their parents may object is the essence of fascist tendencies, and shows a complete gap in understanding of our constitution.