ANSWERS: 22
  • Enjoy your detention. You have the right to your opinion. And they have the right to assign you detention. Now, sit up straight.
  • Good Luck. It will be a hard fight. You may need to call the ACLU when it gets to that point.
  • Good for your school, and good for you. This is what America is all about, the freedom of choice and the consequences of breaking rules.
  • If you don't stand up (or stay seated in this case) for your beliefs, no one else will. Good luck!
  • I admire your desire to take a stand and if you're determined, go for it. But on the other hand, life is a series of indoctrinations and it's never too early to start practicing.
  • Well you will get a detention then.. Just do it even if you have something else in your head (no one will notice).
  • Come to Kenya...no one forces our students to do that!
  • In mother Russia, you get life in the electric chair.
  • STAND YOUR GROUND! No one should be made to do the pledge of allegiance. This is a free country and you should be free to not have to say the pledge or sing the national anthem or anything else if you so choose. Get detention, then have your parents call the school and raise hell about it, for fear of a lawsuit they will leave you alone and ask that you only stand up during the pledge.
  • As long as you are mature about receiving the consequences, then you should have no problem with it. I would really like it if you let your teacher know ahead of time, though. He/she deserves to know that it isn't an affront to authority. It isn't, is it?
  • I always thought it was a bit strange the way everyone was so gung ho about America.. with the pledge of allegiance and singing the national anthem at sports. but now I find the growing contempt for traditions even more disturbing.
  • It is your right. Just be glad there are and have been thousands who have pledged allegiance, fought and died for it and your right to not pledge allegiance. Even though you refuse to pledge I hope you appreciate those who do and have.
  • Yes. My thought is that you're being childish and petulant.
  • certainly there will be a lot of kids in detention. at my school the kids in detention cant go on special trips. they cant attend sport events. they cant even play in sport events. they cant attend any school function. they cant be in band, or choir, or any extra ciricular school event. its a big downer. they cant even ride the bus to and from school. they are considered malcontents. non cooperative delinguents. the known bullies are in this group.
  • I've been here... I have been in trouble for not standing to say the pledge. I don't believe in America. That isn't a popular stance, but after fighting the school for a little while, they relented. They cannot make you, not really, if it goes against what you believe in, they can't make you. If you are doing it for the sake of insubordination and rebellion... just do the pledge, if there is a real reason, fight it.
  • I think the Pledge of Allegiance is about showing loyalty to your country, i am not crazy about the God line, but this can mean many things depending on the individual. I think that if this is all you need to do to show thanks and loyalty for the great country you live in then you should do it, It's about having respect for those who fought for you to have the right to refuse to do a 15 second pledge. Find a bigger issue and fight that. As for the indoctrination of it if you don't want to live in the USA then maybe you should go to Iran?
  • This is ridiculous. To all you people saying that the school has a right to punish students who don't follow this patriotic nonsense - you're inane. We don't have to do it in Australia, and neither do you have to in the UK. America is falling behind. For god's sake, don't punish kids for thinking outside of the box.
  • Damn communists!
  • If you think that's indoctrination what will you do when the draft is reinstated and you're wearing green?
  • If your school is a public school they have no right to make you say something against your will. If it is a private school however they do have the right, just as you have the right not to attend that particular school.
  • This is illegal. Tell your parents or write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper/mayor.
  • You have the right not to say it, just as they may have to right to punish you for not doing so. However, do you REALLY know what it means?  

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