Parents fight school's dropping of Pledge of Allegiance

Atlanta, Not Soviet Georgia -- Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School Principal Lara Zelski made the decision that students will no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, in morning meeting agenda.

She told parents that this is "an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community," which is a progressive talking point to make America a global society.

Falling in lockstep with anti-American ideology, the communist principal wrote: "Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community were choosing to not stand and/or recite the pledge," according to  the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 

The statement posted on the school website promised parents and students that they could recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America later in the day, if they felt like doing so, and promised to create a better pledge specifically for the school.

"Teachers and the K-5 leadership team will be working with students to create a school pledge that we can say together at morning meeting," Zelski wrote, adding that it "will focus on students' civic responsibility to their school family, community, country and our global society."

Perhaps it will go something like this:

 "I pledge allegiance to the school of Principal Lara Zelski. And to the ideals for which it stands, one global nation, under the UN, with unity and trophies for all."

Liberalism, like socialism and communism is a mental disorder that has never worked in the long run.

"I'm really looking forward to what our students create," she wrote.

Parents of the students were incensed and gained attention of Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, and others who slammed Zelski's leftist decision.

"I'm sure our House Education Committee will examine whether taxpayer funds should be used to instill such a divisive ideology in our students," Ralston posted online, AJC reported.

In less than a day, school officials chickened out. Their anti-American stance didn't work and they reversed course.

Zelski's anti-American removal of the Pledge of Allegiance was wiped from the school's website and walked back with a statement by Lia Santos. The statement makes it sound as if the pledge would have been recited later in the day, but Zelski's words made it clear that students or teachers had a choice whether or not to recite it.

According to the AJC:

The state DOE policy demands that schools set a time for the pledge, each school day, at the beginning of the school day or during homeroom period. But students may not be compelled to recite the pledge, it adds.

Janice Crouse, author of "Children at Risk" and a conservative analyst said that the situation serves as an important lesson for parents.

"I think parents should take heart . . . in that the administration was forced to change their minds and go back to having the Pledge of Allegiance," she said. "And I think parents can learn from this that they do need to speak out, and they do need to know what's going on so that they can speak out."


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