{"id":292641,"date":"2016-08-24T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292641"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:53:57","slug":"pledge-of-allegiance-waiver-form-angers-patriotic-parents-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ko\/pledge-of-allegiance-waiver-form-angers-patriotic-parents-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge of Allegiance waiver form angers \u2018patriotic\u2019 parents in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Nobody should be forced anywhere to pledge anything saying \u201cunder god\u201d which is not respecting the separation of church and state and the right to be atheist.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A nosy uncle claims to be outraged by the \u2018Pledge of Allegiance\u2019 waiver sent home from his niece\u2019s school – and now, so is the right-wing media machine.<\/p>\n

Micah Brienen took to Facebook to voice his anger at the note his sister received from Killearn Lakes Elementary School.<\/p>\n

He posted a photo of the form and the mother had added her owns thoughts:\u00a0\u201cThis is the dumbest thing I have ever read and I am so ashamed of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brienen\u2019s post received over 22,000 shares, which apparently made it newsworthy enough for the local Fox News affiliate.<\/p>\n

Most commenters agreed with Brienen, with one saying,\u00a0\u201cI would pull my kids out of that school immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShip them off to another country,\u201d\u00a0one said, while another claimed the \u201ceducation system is run by Marxists,\u201d\u00a0likely unaware that the Pledge was written by socialist Francis Bellamy.<\/p>\n

Brienan said it\u00a0\u201cundermines the men and women who fought for that flag,\u201d\u00a0which,\u00a0based on his profile\u00a0as an Optometric Physician, doesn’t include him, as he preferred to play college basketball rather than serve his country in the military.<\/p>\n

Written in the late 1800s and\u00a0angering atheists\u00a0with its\u00a0\u201cUnder God\u201d\u00a0clause since 1954, the Pledge of Allegiance originally called for those reciting it to extend their right arms in a\u00a0Nazi-like\u00a0salute.<\/p>\n

While not required in all US schools, parents and children have been bullied into saying it by administrators, teachers, and federal judges for decades.<\/p>\n

Florida\u00a0law\u00a0requires schools to inform parents that the,\u00a0\u201cstudent has the right not to participate in reciting the pledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some social media users were quick to blame President Barack Obama for the form, not realizing the opt-out was available in Florida since 2000, according to\u00a0Snopes.<\/p>\n

Brienan posted an update on Tuesday, saying that the request form had been removed from the student handbook\u00a0\u201cdistrict-wide,\u201d\u00a0although RT has put in a request from the Leon County school district to confirm this.<\/p>\n

Their\u00a0\u201cLCS-Form to Report About Possible Bullying\/ Harassment Incident(s)\u201d\u00a0is still linked on the school\u2019s website, for those atheists who wanted to file one against Brienan, but it is no longer available to download.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/356876-pledge-allegiance-waiver-outrage\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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