Last Thursday, Micah Brienen said his niece brought home a Pledge of Allegiance request for her parents to sign and return.
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“Ship them off to another country”, one said, while another claimed the “education system is run by Marxists”, likely unaware that the Pledge was written by socialist Francis Bellamy.
A Florida man named Micah Brienen was “ashamed” when his niece had come home with the form.
The form gives parents an option to check a box that reads, “I understand my rights as a parent and I request that my child, noted above, be excused from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance”.
His sister-in-law returned her daughter’s form calling it the “dumbest thing I have ever read”, according to the station.
In 2016, the state legislature voted through a bill that allows schools – but does not require schools – to notify parents of a legal right to exempt their children from reciting the pledge, according to The Miami Herald. “My hope is that this post brings attention to people so that maybe the same policy to send out the waivers doesn’t pass in another state”.
Brienan posted an update on Tuesday, saying that the request form had been removed from the student handbook “district-wide”, although RT has put in a request from the Leon County school district to confirm this.
He continued: “Sadly, our American values and traditions are whittling away…” We are required to comply with the law. However, students in Florida have had the right to opt out reciting the Pledge since at least 2000, long before the Barack Obama was elected to the White House.
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“We apologize for any confusion the form may have caused”, the statement concluded.
