Schools in North Dakota have now decided to stop a plan that would have taken patriotism out of the classroom in a big way.
As Fox News reports:
The school board in North Dakota’s most populous city reversed course Thursday on its decision to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at its monthly meetings, following complaints from conservative lawmakers and an angry backlash from citizens around the country.
Seven of the nine members of the Fargo Board of Education, including four newcomers who took office in June, voted last week to cancel a previous board edict that was approved a couple of months before the election. The new board agreed with member Seth Holden, who said the pledge did not align with the district’s diversity and inclusion code in part because the phrase “under God” does not include all faiths.
North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum earlier this week promoted new legislation that would require public schools and governing bodies to administer the pledge without mandating that people recite it. Republican state Rep. Pat Heinert, a retired county sheriff, is suggesting that sanctions be put in place for public boards and commissions that don’t require the patriotic oath.
Angry emails and voicemails dominated Thursday’s special meeting to reconsider the vote. Nyamal Dei, a refugee who fled war-torn Sudan, played a profanity-laced voicemail from a man who called her a slave, racist and Nazi. Several board members apologized to Dei, the lone Black member on the board, for taking the worst of the abuse.
Public comments by citizens were reportedly not allowed during the special session.
Hooray awesome
Seth Holden needs to be recalled as soon as possible.
Why do if America have to change these people come here no one forced them they are suppose to then be Americans and follow our rules we are not suppose to change for them if you do not like our Flag our Pledge or Anthem then stay the hell were you came from and if you do not believe in God or believe in a different one that is your chose but do not try to take away our
Hey, if you don’t like this country there are no locks on the door going out. e-mail me and I’ll buy you a one way ticket to Socialismville. See how you like that.
This is the greatest country that God has ever inspired. No wonder the devil who hates everything has us in his sights. Fight back now, or perish.
Our rights that were given by God shouldn’t ever be taken away. We are a constitutional republic and have always been..
nea is yet another arm of the commie democrat pedophile racist cult party that is destroying America
Reading, writing and arithmetic! Patriotism, a must, if you want America to succeed. Stop the “brain-washing” in schools and allow creative, independent thought, that’s what creates “LEADERS”!!!