Publik Edekashun: Massachusetts Town Requires Students to Have Parents Sign Permission Slip to Recite Pledge of Allegiance

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Publik Edekashun: Massachusetts Town Requires Students to Have Parents Sign Permission Slip to Recite Pledge of Allegiance: "Pretty soon, students will be made to hold their junk rather than their heart during the Pledge just like good community organizers:

From Wicked Local via Weasel Zippers: Brookline public school issues permission slips for students to say Pledge of Allegiance. You won't be surprised that this is talking place in Barney Frank's district.

A Brookline public school is bringing back the Pledge of Allegiance next month — and the principal is asking parents to fill out permission slips before their children participate.

Uh - bringing BACK?!? What - did they lose it?

“It’s uncomfortable. The pledge is a promise, and I’ve always taught my kids to think very carefully before making any promise. It’s not a decision I want to make for them,” said Judi Puritz Cook, who has two sons at the Devotion School.

On Monday, Devotion Principal Gerardo J. Martinez sent a letter to parents telling them that the school would begin weekly recitations next month of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag that he’d lead over the public address system.

Uh - WEEKLY?!?

“I urge you to have a conversation as a family to help your children understand why I will be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and to support them in feeling comfortable and confident in the decision on whether or not to participate,” Martinez said in the letter.

...In an interview, Superintendent Bill Lupini said that no student would be compelled to participate or not participate in the pledge based on how a parent filled out a permission slip.

He said the town’s school principals recently discussed how to enforce the district’s policy for the pledge. (It calls for teachers to recite the pledge with students at least once a week, according to the School Department website, www.brookline.k12.ma.us.)

...The Devotion School also sent home a copy of the pledge with definitions of several of its terms, including “under God,” which was defined as “there is one Supreme entity for every citizen.”

It is a great irony that Massachusetts is the state where the pilgrims landed the Mayflower for the purpose of glorifying the one true God, not the “one Supreme entity for every citizen.” What the heck kind of gobbledygook is that? For some of these moonbats, their Supreme entity is the same guy who enjoys holding his weenie rather than his heart:

HT: Creative Minority Report

UPDATE: A Fox News report:

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