Last October, 17-year-old India Landry was a student at Windfern High School in Houston, Texas. For months, Ms. Landry had sat quietly in her seat, rather than stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, as is required by the school. Her silent protest had gone largely unnoticed until one day it came to the attention of the school principal. On 02 October 2017, Ms. Landry happened to be in the principal’s office when the bell sounded to indicate it was time for the pledge. Landry sat. The principal, Martha Strother, told her: “Well you’re kicked outta here. This isn’t the NFL.”
Ms. Landry was then told to call her mom for a ride home, else she would be escorted off the premises by police. The school district released the following brief statement:
“A student will not be removed from campus for refusing to stand for the Pledge. We will address…
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Good grief! All I can say is thank goodness that Aotearoa New Zealand doesn’t have a Pledge of Allegiance or anything remotely like it 🙂
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I think I would say with Barry, good grief! What’s with all this pledge every school day and national anthems and what nots?
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Jingoism – i.e. collective insanity.
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I think it is collective madness
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Nativism Nationalism…arrogance and a feeling some have that the US is so superior to other countries. I mean, that’s why we have trump after all.
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Mary you say it so well.
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