2nd June 2008, 7:44 PM
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Personally I've actually recently wondered if it's a good idea to have kids who don't even know what they are saying forced to recite an oath every single school morning anyway.
Think about this for a second. Do first graders really understand what they are saying? Half of them don't even get the words right. Is that really an American ideal to have them just recite hollow words JUST for their own sake? For what reason are they even SAYING all that, and has anyone ever arrested anyone for "going against" this pledge?
Perhaps the best way to get kids to be US citizens should be to teach them the basics of how the US government works (already done) and let them decide for themselves. Perhaps a pledge is pretty stupid.
Oh, and as of late I've realized that not only was the "under god" part added in and not originally there, but it actually does discriminate in it's new form. However, I think the greater concern is having a pledge at all.
Personally I've actually recently wondered if it's a good idea to have kids who don't even know what they are saying forced to recite an oath every single school morning anyway.
Think about this for a second. Do first graders really understand what they are saying? Half of them don't even get the words right. Is that really an American ideal to have them just recite hollow words JUST for their own sake? For what reason are they even SAYING all that, and has anyone ever arrested anyone for "going against" this pledge?
Perhaps the best way to get kids to be US citizens should be to teach them the basics of how the US government works (already done) and let them decide for themselves. Perhaps a pledge is pretty stupid.
Oh, and as of late I've realized that not only was the "under god" part added in and not originally there, but it actually does discriminate in it's new form. However, I think the greater concern is having a pledge at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)