Sure, looks like the school has left education and switched to indoctrination. Forcing students to sign a pledge? That sure looks to be unethical and illegal. If Lounsbury wants to feel guilty about what dead people did hundreds of years ago fine, but she has no right or business using her position to lay that guilt on anyone else, especially students. Lounsbury’s abuse of power is shameful. She is the one who needs her head examined.
On the subject of pledges, should we really teach our children to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America before they're even old enough to truly understand what that entails? Sure, you can argue that part of being an American is being free *not* to say the Pledge, but how many parents tell children *that* before they're of school age? With the way America is going these days, I would not at all feel comfortable telling children to pledge their allegiance to it, or encouraging the mandatory saying of the pledge in schools. That just feels like indoctrination.
"Forty-seven states in the U.S. require the Pledge of Allegiance be recited in public schools, with varying exemptions for students or staff who wish to opt out. The 1943 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, West Virginia V. Barnette, determined that no school or government can compel someone to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or salute the flag...." - from TheHill.com
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I'm not an expert in this concept (and I hope never to be). Yet I noticed the professor, Dr. Catherine Lounsbury, is a member of the very class she herself labeled as "carving out these racial categories as a way to justify white supremacy". If she was truly concerned about race's role in social justice, shouldn't she turn over her position to those she wants to lift?
Sure, looks like the school has left education and switched to indoctrination. Forcing students to sign a pledge? That sure looks to be unethical and illegal. If Lounsbury wants to feel guilty about what dead people did hundreds of years ago fine, but she has no right or business using her position to lay that guilt on anyone else, especially students. Lounsbury’s abuse of power is shameful. She is the one who needs her head examined.
On the subject of pledges, should we really teach our children to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America before they're even old enough to truly understand what that entails? Sure, you can argue that part of being an American is being free *not* to say the Pledge, but how many parents tell children *that* before they're of school age? With the way America is going these days, I would not at all feel comfortable telling children to pledge their allegiance to it, or encouraging the mandatory saying of the pledge in schools. That just feels like indoctrination.
"Forty-seven states in the U.S. require the Pledge of Allegiance be recited in public schools, with varying exemptions for students or staff who wish to opt out. The 1943 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, West Virginia V. Barnette, determined that no school or government can compel someone to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or salute the flag...." - from TheHill.com
I'm not an expert in this concept (and I hope never to be). Yet I noticed the professor, Dr. Catherine Lounsbury, is a member of the very class she herself labeled as "carving out these racial categories as a way to justify white supremacy". If she was truly concerned about race's role in social justice, shouldn't she turn over her position to those she wants to lift?