{"id":1637,"date":"2008-05-09T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2008-05-09T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T01:56:27","slug":"3-kids-suspended-for-ignoring-school-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"3 kids suspended for ignoring school policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader Wayne sends me this from his hometown paper the Star Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Three small-town eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n

“My son wasn’t being defiant against America,” said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota. She said her son offered no reason for sitting.<\/p>\n

Brandt told the Fargo Forum that Thursday’s one-day in-school suspension, “was kind of dumb because I didn’t do anything wrong. It should be the people’s choice.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if it was about the Pledge of Allegiance, I might agree (the Supreme Court agrees with me – it’s unconstitutional to require students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school), but it’s more about following school policy;<\/p>\n

The district today is defending the punishments. The school’s handbook says all students are required to stand but are not obligated to recite the pledge. The same is true for all four schools in the district, a school official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We can skip over all of the typical patriotic excuses for reciting the pledge and go straight to the fact that a rule was broken and a punishment dealt. Junior High kids don’t get to decide which rules they will and will not obey and standing up is not all that difficult. But what’s worse than a kid who thinks he can decide which rules he’ll follow? A parent who thinks their kids are adult enough to decide.<\/p>\n

In this case, I applaud the school for taking a stand for good order and discipline – a real rarity in this day and age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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