Catholics and the Pledge of Allegiance?

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Your tone would indicate you disagree with my perspective. Yet, I fail to see the area of disagreement. Have I offended some political or ideological sentiment in you by being pro-pledge?
 
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Not at all and tone is hard to convey in text. I objected to your post which seemed to imply (my apologies if mistaken) that children are obligated to say the pledge out of our general responsibility for deference to a just authority.
 
The just authority is their parents. I think you’re missing that.
 
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I’m not, but the discussion has gone well past the OP’s question now.
 
blackforest said:
Those homework packets start in Kindergarten these days
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I remember kindergarten, I attended it during the 1961-62 school year.

What is there is to give homework on? Nap time? Playing with clay? Queueing up to go to the bathroom or the milk machine?
 
Yeah, you haven’t had any children in kindergarten in at least the last 20 years if that’s what you think goes on. 😉
 
It’s called Common Core. although I think it’s getting a new name soon. They want all of them reading by the end of the year and send you home with big packets of worksheets to fill in by the end of the week.
 
Yes, children are expected to already know certain things before starting kindergarten.
 
A lot of homework is just busywork. It also cuts into the time a child should be spending with their family or just being a kid.

Also, a lot of homework in college, especially in the sciences, come in the form of optional reading and practice problems. I was so used to doing worksheets that would get graded all my life that, when I got to college, it was difficult learning how to study for a lot of my classes. I would end up spending so much time doing all the practice problems even on material I was pretty familiar with. What assigned busywork does is that it does not allow a child to discover what works best for him or her.
 
I get that, I’m not exactly old, or anywhere close to it, but I think it does teach kids how to complete tasks they don’t want to do.

(Coming from someone who often got zeros for refusing to do busy work)
 
I never for a minute took you for a geezer.

It would be interesting to see whether homeschooled children do better at college. I’d image they would since they are more used to self-directed learning. But part of me objects: if we have to figure everything out ourselves, why do we need to pay colleges so much?
 
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To my knowledge, most public and private schools make children say the Pledge. Unless I stick with homeschooling, or try a Waldorf or free democratic school, it’s going to be hard to avoid it.
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How often? I was in public schools K-12 and don’t think I ever recited it.
 
I definitely understand where you’re coming from. Our public schools are awful. I was lucky enough to go to a private school most of my life until I stupidly insisted on transferring
 
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