Dark Jedi

It looks like they are protecting him from peer pressure...

"The lawyers declined to name the school Max attends but listed its initials as "L.M.H.S." One of the lawyers said Max was from suburban Philadelphia."

Exactly how necessary was that line in a news article? That leftist media again, bringing peer pressure down on the one who dares stand apart from the herd.

Oxidizing Material

Extend your right arm forward and up, and end it in "My life for the Fatherland and for the Fuehrer!"

Jack

Same arm position but:

"Ave Imperator! Ave George Imperator! Ave Imperator!"

Jack

Gunnaheave

You know when I reaed the first post, I decided that the law deserved a really sarcastic comment of some sorts, and I resolved to post just that. Unfortunately, you guys beat me to it.

:notworthy

Splat

Truth be told, I was a little disappointed that they filed so fast and the education officials had the good sense not to try and enforce the law.

I was looking forward to sending the kids off with strict instructions not to say the pledge: "If you don't come home with a letter saying you didn't say the pledge, you're in big trouble." (not that they'd need the threat...) I was going to frame the letters and hang them in their bedrooms.

I think I told this story here once, but it bears repeating. A couple of days after 9/11, my daughter's elementary school held an assembly to talk about it. The principal asked everybody to say the pledge, but there wasn't a flag there. The principal had gotten her nails done in a stars-and-stripes motif the day before, so she held up her hand and the kids pledged allegience to her fingernails.

She was a nut, in the best sense. She strongly supported us in a fight against a teacher promoting a Duane Gish book in his classroom. But she moved on, and we miss her. I have no doubt she would've fought this pledge thing tooth and star-spangled nail.