{"id":27163,"date":"2011-10-24T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27163"},"modified":"2011-10-24T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:54:37","slug":"air-force-veteran-opposes-pledge-in-childs-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27163","title":{"rendered":"Air Force veteran opposes Pledge in child’s classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that 26-year-old female Air Force veteran Haley Sides has declared war on her child’s school because the principal of the public school has asked student’s to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each day. Side’s explanation for her opposition to this new policy is somewhat convoluted, so if you can figure it out, please explain it to me;<\/p>\n

“It pains me to think that at a school that emphasizes thinking globally we would institute something that makes our children think that this country alone is where their allegiance lies,” said Sides. “This has no educational value for young children. Absolutely none.”<\/p>\n

Sides started crying as she described why she is so opposed to the pledge being recited in her daughter’s school. The explanation goes back to her partner, a Jamaican-born Navy serviceman who died just seven months after obtaining U.S. citizenship \u2014 and when his daughter was 18 months old.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, the pledge will be read over the PA system every Monday and recited in individual classrooms the other days of the week. Students who don’t want to participate will be allowed to sit or stand respectfully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a public school, so it’s funded by American taxpayers…Side’s child’s education is coming out of our pockets, don’t you think she owes us a bit of allegiance? i certainly sympathize with her that she lost her ‘partner” and the child lost her father, but that’s certainly no reason to start acting like a jackass and waving her DD214 around as if it gives her some measure of moral authority to shit all over everyone else’s patriotism. She can always shop around for a private school that doesn’t require the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.<\/p>\n

Since the school isn’t forcing anyone to recite the Pledge, I’m assuming that Side is opposed to her child even hearing the pledge recited. She can always carry her ass to Jamaica and pledge allegiance to the Rastafarians since that’s where her allegiances seem to lie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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