daughterofscotland:

kc749:

saturnineaqua:

cravingrichonne:

sprmint-bkgsoda:

Should have know it would be long.

This is illegal. The Supreme Court made decisions against compulsory actions and recitations as far back as 1943. They revisited this type case in 1990, even affirming citizen’s right to burn the flag. This school board won’t stand a chance when the ACLU gets a hold of this.

http://theconversation.com/trumps-national-anthem-outrage-ignores-decades-of-supreme-court-rulings-84725

this was happening in the 00s when we didnt wanna stand for Bush. 

i sat during the pledge in NY, and the teacher called the principal. then he came, made vague suspension threats, i challenged him on it, told him to buck, then he’d call security and they’d loom over me, and i’d let them know just what would happen of they put a hand on me. every day they did this. and every day i’d remind their BLACK asses that i came from a country where this shit was illegal for this very reason. 

I was almost hit by a substitute teacher for not standing for the pledge while I took a semester of High School in the US.

He didn’t even let me tell him that I was German - he ordered me to sing the national anthem.

So I did. The German one.

That’s when he really exploded, threatened me with expulsion, kept making physically threatening gestures…

Until one of the guys finally managed to yell at him that I was not American.

Then he turned white very fast.

America’s obsession with their nationalism is terrifying.

the pledge of allegiance is more or less indoctrination. children have to, on a daily basis, announce their loyalty to a country that does not care about them.