In the US most students recite “the pledge of allegiance” every morning before school, which is kind of crazy. If you were in charge, what if anything would you replace it with?
The navy seal copypasta
Free breakfast.
Damn that’s a good answer.
Yes and
“most students”? “every morning”?
My class only did it until we had it memorized, and then never again.
Guess you weren’t “most” then. That’s definitely not the norm.
It is a law in my state that all students must stand and all teachers must recite. Most of the students recite too, but no one but teachers are forced to.
It is a law in my state that all students must stand and all teachers must recite.
protects students from being compelled to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.
Students are not being compelled to salute or say the pledge, only stand and be quiet. Teachers are the ones compelled to recite the pledge every day.
Can we make a pledge to be a good and productive person?
Nothing. Just let the kids do their morning uninterrupted.
It’s state law where I live. Fucking crazy.
I just never did it, why even replace it. just remove it entirely.
The Team Rocket motto
This one sounds kinda good:
- One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
- The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
- One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
- The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the another is to forgo your own.
- Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
- People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
- Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion , wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Satanic laugh
If anything, get them to find/research their own that they identify with and explain what makes it personal to them.
Lol I can’t wait to hear everyone recite their respective pledges at the same time
Back when I was an extremely earnest 14-year-old I wanted to replace it with Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech, but honestly that’s probably too long and I don’t think forcing 5-year-olds to recite something they won’t even understand is a good way to instill anything worth instilling.
Nothing, propaganda pledges don’t have a place in institutions of learning.
hmmm, the tao of bill & ted kinda works for me.
I have never seen the pledge of allegiance recited in a classroom, not met a person who did this.
As far as I can tell, it’s a myth.
I definitely did growing up in elementary school. Every morning, during the school wide announcements, the principle or whoever was talking on the PA system would recite the pledge and students were pretty much expected to stand and put one hand on their chest and at least listen if not recite it.
It seemed to taper off in my middle school years, and basically only ever happened at football games once I was in high-school.
This is all in a fairly blue area of a generally pretty blue state.
Blue state blue country and we were expected to recite the pledge every morning of k-8 (I don’t recall it being a thing in high school.) I remember kids whose parents were politically active being punted out of class for not participating. About half of us would just follow along with “blah blah blah blah blah blah blah” at the cadence of the pledge.
I did everyday K-12. Nice to meet you.
I really can’t remember the last time I said it in school, would have been super early on, 1st or 2nd grade back in the 70s. Definitely not after that.
Teacher: “What is best in life?”
Students (In Unison): “To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And hear the lamentations of their women.”
