Timothy Birdnow

A substitute teacher in the Parkway South School District in suburban St. Louis County, Mo. was fired after thanking students for reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"A substitute teacher who has taught for years at Parkway South High School claims school administrators banned him from working there after he thanked students for saying the Pledge of Allegiance and a student complained.

The substitute teacher, Jim Furkin, told the Parkway School Board his story at their meeting Wednesday night and asked them to look into it.

"I’d like to know what happened,” Furkin said.

Furkin told the Post-Dispatch that in late October he was the substitute teacher for a freshman English class at Parkway South High when the school made its daily announcements over the PA system. After announcements, students are asked to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

"So I say, ‘All right, let’s go,’ and we recite the pledge,” he said. "There are always two or three who don’t stand up because it’s not required. So at the end of the pledge I said, ‘Thanks to all of you that participated in that. I’m sure that all of those families who lost loved ones so that we could enjoy the freedoms we have today would appreciate the effort.’”

Furkin said a student asked to go to the school counselor’s office, so Furkin wrote the student a pass to go. Later on, he said, a school administrator questioned Furkin about what happened and told him that a student had been "hurt” by what was said after the pledge.

"I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t mean it that way, that wasn’t my intent at all,’” Furkin said. "He said ‘We’ll get back to you,’ and then the next day after that, I’m no longer welcome in the building.”

End excerpt.

America has gone mad. It is especially true in Academia/Education where Progressives have created an alternate universe where people get angry for saying the Pledge, or wearing flag shirts, or Marine hats.

And while students are told to be offended at every little thing, the reverse is never true. Take this story where a Colorado teacher was charged with child abuse for FORCING a student to stand for the Pledge last February. Or how about this incident in Blue Island, Illinois, from 2017 where a teacher got fired for confronting a student who refused to stand for the Pledge.

The Pledge of Allegiance is a pledge of citizenship for Americans. It has been around for a long time, and it is the way children are taught to understand the value and purpose of America, and to be good citizens. Citizenship has to be taught; it is not instinctual. This war on the Pledge is essentially a war on America itself.

It is despicable beyond words.

People seem to have forgotten that George H.W. Bush won his election over Michael Dukakis in no small part over his demand for legislation to protect the American flag. Radicals had been burning the flag and Bush wanted a law to make it illegal to do so. Dukakis disagreed, and history - and the American People - came down on the side of Bush.

A nation that refuses to teach her people to respect the country is destined for the ash heap of history. I suppose that would suit the Progressives just fine.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 06:35 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
Post contains 577 words, total size 5 kb.