Pledge of Allegiance

[dimpy.handa]

I'm here to question the requirement of saying the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. It's original intent may have been to promote loyalty, but very little students understand the principles behind the Pledge. Without truly understanding the fundamental principles, the Pledge becomes a chant for students to repeat every morning before school. It becomes a chore they despise because they're forced to repeat it every morning.

As a child in middle school or elementary school, I never paid any attention to the meaning of the words. I just chanted along with the other students in the hopes of getting over with it as soon as possible. I was much too preoccupied with playing around with my friends or learning something new in science. Only in High School did I start to understand.

It seems to have lost its purpose.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

One of the most internal-conflict-generating issues is the controversy on the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. On the one hand, some have no problem saying the Pledge with those words. They do not conflict in any way with their own religious beliefs. On the other hand, it certainly seems that the atheists' fight to avoid saying the words. And when we look at the most recent Pledge fight, in which an atheist father sued on behalf of a daughter who did not share his beliefs, it seems to me that the atheists on their part are equally coercive as their religious counterparts which is unacceptable too. They need to find a rational way to deal with this.