I taught for 23 years in a local school and they didn’t start doing the pledge over the intercom until about 10 years ago. Before that, I never said it in my classroom and nobody said a word. I always felt uncomfortable about the school wide announcement pledge, until I thought about it as just a routine way to start the day. My second graders would yell “WORK HARD AND BE KIND!” after the pledge and we would be off to Morning Meeting. Your writing inspires me…thank you for that.
Susie, thank you for examining this. I am currently overwhelmed and feel like anything I could do wouldn't matter in the larger picture. But thats not true. It starts with us, each in our own way, to live that pledge everyday in how we treat each other, and call out injustice where we see it. Thank you.
Thank you. I grew up saying the pledge every day and was in school when the language changed(I’m old) so we had extra practice to get right.
Now the pledge and the flag seem like things to fight about without looking at the meaning. Sad.
I do like the Deer River school pledge.
Yes, yes, yes. Thank you, Susie.
I, too, refuse to say under God.
I taught for 23 years in a local school and they didn’t start doing the pledge over the intercom until about 10 years ago. Before that, I never said it in my classroom and nobody said a word. I always felt uncomfortable about the school wide announcement pledge, until I thought about it as just a routine way to start the day. My second graders would yell “WORK HARD AND BE KIND!” after the pledge and we would be off to Morning Meeting. Your writing inspires me…thank you for that.
Susie, thank you for examining this. I am currently overwhelmed and feel like anything I could do wouldn't matter in the larger picture. But thats not true. It starts with us, each in our own way, to live that pledge everyday in how we treat each other, and call out injustice where we see it. Thank you.
I feel like this connects to some of the conversations we've been having at CPC, Kathy.