pledge of allegiance

Houston-area student suspended for not standing for Pledge of Allegiance.

As important as public education is to our society, it’s understandable that any changes to it will be met with high scrutiny, and likely high controversy.  Some schools were met with challenges over something as simple as dropping cursive writing from the curriculum, while others felt the backlash for using textbooks that indicated that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time...

For several years, I would start my summer with a trip North to visit my family about this time of year. The drive would always take me through the same small town on Memorial Day morning. I think that town had at least one flag for each resident and they were lined up throughout what I'm sure they called Memorial Park, right along the highway that ran through their community...