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Josh (no login)
Posted Oct 11, 2005 8:22 AM
When I came across your blog I began to look at the rights that the first ammendment granted ME as a student. While all of these seem common sense, it just started to make me think. My entire life I have been saying the pledge of allegiance blindly, but the students rights information describes how it has changed over the years. The first thing I noticed was that the first pledge of allegiance did not include the phrase "one nation under god". Even though (as the student information points out) schools can no longer force students to say the pledge of allegiance, every public school still starts their day saying it. Church and state have always been separate, but then why in 1954 did public schools decide to start endorsing the new version of the pledge that recognized god?
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