Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:43:13 PM
Three eighth-graders from Minnesota have been suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights.
"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 northwestern Minnesota.
Brandt told the Forum newspaper in Fargo 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."
(Kids don't always have the same rights as adults. If these were my children I would have been teaching them all along what the flag stands for and then if they pulled this act they would be standing because they wouldn't feel much like sitting. In our schools and homes we need to teach our youth what our flag stands for. Read more on this issue right here .)
