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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Look at his shirt!
My mother said she stopped saying the Pledge in school; my grandparents had absolutely nothing to do with it. If she was able to pull that off on her own free will over 50 years ago, why is anyone surprised that a kid today--who tend to be much more informed about how the news and politics than most of us were at his age--would do the same thing?
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I'm sure some kids can and do put all of this together on their own (yay Dr. Phil
), but I've worked with lots of kids that age, and in my experience, gay rights simply isn't on the radar for most (any?) of them, much less translating that outrage about gay rights to protest by not saying the pledge. Granted, I'm in a part of the country where gay rights isn't that high profile an issue, but then again, so is this kid. Maybe I'm selling the kid short, but this just looks to me more like the kid picking up what he heard from mom and dad or somewhere else and running with it rather than completely putting it all together on his own. Not that that would be any different from how most kids that age start the process of forming opinions.