God bless the United States. The greatest country on Earth brings so many opportunities for people. If you want to become wildly successful, all you need is hard work and a propensity to not blame everyone else for your misfortunes. If you’d rather drink yourself into the bathroom and start collecting STDs like collecting stamps, god bless you, you can do that too. Want a house? Buy it. Want a car? Buy it. Want food that makes ass-clowns like The Center for Science in the Public Interest staple their brains back into their skulls, send pictures. You’re not forced to join the military and when you turn 18, you can almost do anything you want within the confines of the law. It’s pretty sweet.
However, for these benefits, sometimes you should show some appreciation of the fact that you got lucky as shit when you were born into this country. It’s like saying thank you when someone gives you a gift for no reason.
Arlington High School fails badly at showing their appreciation living in the greatest country on Earth. More importantly, they fail their students.
The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old’s request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it, according to a report in the Arlington Patch.
Harrington had presented school officials with a petition signed by 700 people, along with letters of support from lawmakers including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
One committee member spoke.
Some committee members voiced concerns about forcing people to do something that might violate their beliefs – including religious beliefs. Among the no-votes was committee member Leba Heigham.
“Patriotism is a very personal thing for all of us, but I do not think it is in the school committee’s best interest to mandate that any of our employees recite the pledge,” she told the Patch.
Heigham’s understanding of voluntary must go back to when peowot was more commonly referred as a nominative, accusative or genitive translation.
The student that has caused so much of the commotion in Arlington High School is named Sean Harrington and when he was a freshman, he noticed that the school didn’t have any American flags and didn’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Three years later, he raised a little army of students that petitioned to bring flags to classrooms and to recite the Pledge. He won with the flags but not the Pledge. Learning of the failed vote, Harrington will enter his senior year clearly still ambitious enough to fight on.
“I’m not a person who quits and I don’t back down. It’s a very righteous cause and needs to be followed through until the end.”
Good choice.
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