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originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Funny thing is a lot of the biggest patriots were brainwashed into worshipping a flag in public school. I remember a kid in one of my classes in high school being written up and sent home because he didn't want to stand for the national anthem.
Get 'em while they're young and don't know any better.
originally posted by: JBurns
Great video reviewing some of the finer points in the argument against public schooling.
www.youtube.com...
The benevolent nanny state doesn't exist.
Money should follow students, providing opportunities in private schools as well as home school education w/o any sort of federal input/oversight/regulation.
collectivism
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Funny thing is a lot of the biggest patriots were brainwashed into worshipping a flag in public school. I remember a kid in one of my classes in high school being written up and sent home because he didn't want to stand for the national anthem.
Get 'em while they're young and don't know any better.
Wow! respect and worship have two different meanings.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Funny thing is a lot of the biggest patriots were brainwashed into worshipping a flag in public school. I remember a kid in one of my classes in high school being written up and sent home because he didn't want to stand for the national anthem.
Get 'em while they're young and don't know any better.
Wow! respect and worship have two different meanings.
You understood that as s child?
As a child you understood pledging your allegiance to a country?
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
Funny thing is a lot of the biggest patriots were brainwashed into worshipping a flag in public school. I remember a kid in one of my classes in high school being written up and sent home because he didn't want to stand for the national anthem.
Get 'em while they're young and don't know any better.
Wow! respect and worship have two different meanings.
You understood that as s child?
As a child you understood pledging your allegiance to a country?
originally posted by: nightbringr
a reply to: seeker1963
Not everyone has great parents.
My brother in laws teaches troubled youth with horrendous parents who could never, ever afford to send their kids to private school.
You know what they would teach their own 'home schooled' kids? How to be criminals, thugs, druggies and alcoholics.
originally posted by: narrator
a reply to: seeker1963
Why should anyone have to be required to respect a piece of fabric? Especially someone too young to understand what it is they're being required to do? The logic doesn't compute with me.
No one should be required to salute, pledge allegiance, etc to a cloth rectangle. Totally different than saying "thank you" directly to a soldier that has defended our country. I still wouldn't require it, but that makes infinitely more sense to me than absentmindedly reciting a pledge that has no meaning to a child.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: nightbringr
a reply to: seeker1963
Not everyone has great parents.
My brother in laws teaches troubled youth with horrendous parents who could never, ever afford to send their kids to private school.
You know what they would teach their own 'home schooled' kids? How to be criminals, thugs, druggies and alcoholics.
I had great teachers too! They had the authority to beat my ass if I was disruptive and disrespectful in school.
originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: Annee
I trust the parents ideology far more than one devised by some bureaucratic nightmare.