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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIowa Senator Introduces Bill That Forces Teachers to Recite Pledge, be 'Patriotic"
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The proposed bill would punish Iowa teachers who say anything that could be "reasonably" interpreted as "an unpatriotic commentary on the United States" when discussing the pledge of allegiance
iowastartingline.com
Iowa Senator Introduces Bill That Forces Teachers to Recite Pledge, be 'Patriotic' - Iowa Starting...
Iowa teachers would also be banned from saying anything that could be construed as "an unpatriotic commentary" about the U.S.
10:51 AM · Jan 14, 2022
Iowa Starting Line
@IAStartingLine
The proposed bill would punish Iowa teachers who say anything that could be "reasonably" interpreted as "an unpatriotic commentary on the United States" when discussing the pledge of allegiance
iowastartingline.com
Iowa Senator Introduces Bill That Forces Teachers to Recite Pledge, be 'Patriotic' - Iowa Starting...
Iowa teachers would also be banned from saying anything that could be construed as "an unpatriotic commentary" about the U.S.
10:51 AM · Jan 14, 2022
https://iowastartingline.com/2022/01/14/iowa-senator-introduces-bill-that-forces-teachers-to-recite-pledge-be-patriotic/
Iowa Republicans are seeking more control over what teachers say and do in the classroom.
Senate File 2043, introduced and referred to the education committee, would require teachers to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and stand while doing so, or while it is recited. Teachers with a documented disability that prevents them from standing are exempt from the requirement.
The bill was introduced by Republican Sen. Adrian Dickey of Jefferson Countys Packwood.
Another section of the bill also limits what teachers can say about the Pledge of Allegiance.
It reads: A teacher shall not, while in the classroom with any students in kindergarten through grade twelve, speak about the pledge of allegiance in any manner in which the student or students in the classroom may reasonably understand the teachers speech to be any of the following: an unpatriotic commentary on the United States, an attempt to politically influence the student or students.
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Iowa Senator Introduces Bill That Forces Teachers to Recite Pledge, be 'Patriotic" (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2022
OP
In related news the ghost of Hitler rose from his grave and saluted.
Alexander Of Assyria
Jan 2022
#3
Ohio Joe
(21,752 posts)1. Well then...
Perhaps they should be sure to mention that traitorous seditionists hate America and violate the pledge. Nothing they believe in or stand for should be tolerated. No?
Red Mountain
(1,731 posts)2. Do as I say not as I do
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)3. In related news the ghost of Hitler rose from his grave and saluted.
VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)4. This is a clear violation of the 1A
However, who knows how this Supreme Court might rule.
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)5. This is 'Murica where we force faux patriotism upon you.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)6. Sooo I'm just trying to keep up...
... storming the capital and threatening to kill the vice president and speaker of the house is okie dokie... not saying the pledge of allegiance in school that should be crime... uhmmm...
RainCaster
(10,867 posts)7. Iowa senators should be required to memorize the Constitution
And recite it every time they meet with lobbyists.
Celerity
(43,328 posts)8. Next up, they will bring back the Bellamy salute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
Children salute the American flag in front of the Morgan Hill School in the 1930s California
Children performing a salute to the flag of the United States, 1941
Southington, Connecticut school children pledge their allegiance to the flag, in May 1942.
Children salute the American flag in front of the Morgan Hill School in the 1930s California
Children performing a salute to the flag of the United States, 1941
Southington, Connecticut school children pledge their allegiance to the flag, in May 1942.
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)9. Compulsory patriotism...isn't.