Friday, July 2, 2010

Yes, I Question Their Patriotism!

The Birth of Old Glory by Edward Percy Moran (c. 1917),
depicting the presentation by Betsy Ross of the first
American flag to George Washington
If this were Bill O-Reilly's blog, Charles Skidmore, the principal of Arlington High School in Massachussetts, and most of the teachers on his staff, would be labelled pin heads. 

You see, Mr. Skidmore presides over a school that had, until recently, abolished US flags from its classrooms, and still--over the protests of some of its students--will not allow the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited within its confines.

Fox News has a story on this.  One of the students (who apparently has more understanding than all his teachers) has been fighting to overcome the extreme radical leftism that has not only banned the recitation of the Pledge, but has also banished US flags from classrooms.  Seems he won the battle over flags in the classrooms was defeated on the other front.

The Fox News article says--
The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old's request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it, according to a report in the Arlington Patch.  (Emphasis mine).
Interestingly, one notes that students of Arlington High School are obligated to perform 40 hours of community service before receiving their diplomas.  Well, they could all do double that and it still would not overcome the collossal disservice that Mr. Skidmore and associates have wrought in that little corner of the northeast and in the hearts and minds of those pupils.

Pin heads, indeed.

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