[ April 19, 2024 ]
Hell in a hand-basket.
Atlanta school drops Pledge of Allegiance, asks students to instead recite ‘Wolf Pack Chant’
An Atlanta charter school headed into the new school year by telling students and staff not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning — but instead the “Wolf Pack Chant.”
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School announced on Tuesday it will be eliminating the Pledge of Allegiance from its morning agenda to make the institution more inclusive.
Story continues below advertisement“Students will continue to lead the meeting by asking our community to stand to participate in our Wolf Pack Chant together. Students will also be given the opportunity to say the pledge at another point during the school day within their classroom,” the school’s elementary campus president Lara Zelski said in a news release.
Zelski said school officials made the decision to eliminate the morning tradition based on events in the last few years where “more and more” students and staff have chosen not to recite or stand during the pledge.
“There are many emotions around this and we want everyone in our school family to start their day in a positive manner. After all, that is the whole purpose of our morning meeting,” Zelski said.
The “Wolf Pack Chant’ will be a new pledge created by the students and teachers. Zelski said the pledge, most likely named after the school’s wolf mascot, will “focus on students’ civic responsibility to their school family, community, country and our global society.”
The charter school opened in 2002 in the Grant Park neighborhood and serves students from kindergarten to fifth grade.
The Atlanta charter school isn’t the first to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance. Bedford Area School District in southcentral Pennsylvania said in April it will not require students to stand for the pledge. School officials cited the students’ First Amendment rights as their reason.
“Personally, I hope every student will stand for our flag,” superintendent Allen Sell told WJAC-TV in April. “But if they choose not to, that’s their First Amendment rights and we, as school leaders, have the responsibility to respect that. The topic of standing, or not standing, has been getting a lot of national attention, most commonly because of protests at NFL [National Football League] games.”
President Trump brought the controversy surrounding the national anthem protest to the forefront last year when he lambasted NFL players who took a knee during the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
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5 years ago
NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back —
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;
And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.
The Jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the Wolf is a Hunter — go forth and get food of thine own.
Keep peace withe Lords of the Jungle — the Tiger, the Panther, and Bear.
And trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the Boar in his lair.
When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,
Lie down till the leaders have spoken — it may be fair words shall prevail.
When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar,
Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be diminished by war.
The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home,
Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.
The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain,
The Council shall send him a message, and so he shall change it again.
If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with your bay,
Lest ye frighten the deer from the crop, and your brothers go empty away.
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride;
Pack-Right is the right of the meanest; so leave him the head and the hide.
The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. Ye must eat where it lies;
And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies.
The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf. He may do what he will;
But, till he has given permission, the Pack may not eat of that Kill.
Cub-Right is the right of the Yearling. From all of his Pack he may claim
Full-gorge when the killer has eaten; and none may refuse him the same.
Lair-Right is the right of the Mother. From all of her year she may claim
One haunch of each kill for her litter, and none may deny her the same.
Cave-Right is the right of the Father — to hunt by himself for his own:
He is freed of all calls to the Pack; he is judged by the Council alone.
Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw,
In all that the Law leaveth open, the word of your Head Wolf is Law.
Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is — Obey!
Rudyard Kipling
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_lawofjungle.htm
5 years ago
Has to be a black dominated school.
Maybe not getting state and federal money would help them see the need to be tolerant?
Why should TAX PAYERS be OFFENDED who work and have their tax dollars spent here?
5 years ago
Hell in a hand-basket.
Well stated, accurate.
“If there is a Hell, I’ll see you there.” -Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) Heresy, off of The Downward Spiral (How apt an album title for our slow flush down the crapper.)
5 years ago
Rotting from within. Our enemies can’t believe their good fortune!’They can sit back and laugh!
Kieth Ellison and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), unabased push Marxism and Islam!
Living Next Door to Ali
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5 years ago
5 years ago
We must respect what students ‘think’ even if they have never been taught to think.
5 years ago
6 year olds have 1st amendment rights in the classroom? this superintendent is a certified fool. who pays to send their kids to this nut factory?
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
far left liberals
their kids will be the most twisted sick disruptive criminals America has to hold in a few years
5 years ago
“Zelski said the pledge, most likely named after the school’s wolf
mascot, will “focus on students’ civic responsibility to their school
family, community, country and our global society.” Um, how is citing some stupid mascot chant, in any way, ‘focusing on civic responsibility?’ This is sick! The campus president, Zelski, should be removed from her office in a straight jacket. Her “responsibility” is to teach the students their civic responsibility. And that includes citing the pledge of allegiance. Daily. What she is doing, is near treasonous and should be dealt with as such.
5 years ago
In the old days you had to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and you’d catch hell if you just stood there without saying anything.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Dillon
The Pledge if Allegiance UNITES people.
They want the opposite because they REJECT all this country stands for.
Instead of EDUCATING them on what our country is about, they REJECT it too!
Can you imagine what they are TEACHING in this school if they make this change?
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
They been teaching crap for over 35 years. We fought it in the early 90`s. It began even decades before that. In the early 60`s when prayer was removed. Once God was thrown out of school, His opposite took over
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Dillon
the old days? meaning before America was sodomized for 8 years by an impostor muslim scumbag?
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Dillon
Its time to pass a law requiring all citizens to recite pledge of allegiance. Those who oppose it should be dismissed from govt job and jailed for 1 year plus $5000 penalty And made to recite pledge of allegiance 2 times a day before meal.
If not done Jail term gets extended indefinately with solitary confinement with option to go to another country or get deported to country he or his forefathers hailed from…..or this will only get worse
Like these Left/Liberal who are now making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
ALL opposer of the Pledge of Allegiance need to vacate the United States of America NOW. You scum bags don’t deserve to be a free people, get out.
5 years ago
Where did my country go? I miss it.
5 years ago
Amusingly ironic: they are not ‘wolves’ but foolish prey.
5 years ago
arm your wife and kids. teach them how to defend themselves. and who not to trust. let them understand that islam teaches their children FROM BIRTH that it is their duty to murder rape and behead white people.
grindworx dot come – and of course when your kids are 8 years old- a revolver.
sound insane?
better to be insane and have living unraped kids and wives than dead ones
5 years ago
No problem! These traitors don’t want to be American? Cut their funding and double their property taxes and utilities.
5 years ago
Wolf pack chant? Then let them be supported by wolves. And see how long it last. Just another way for leftist to try and divide our country.
5 years ago
WAKE UP: The pledge of allegiance is a socialist tool that was created by avowed socialist Francis Bellamy to indoctrinate children to worship the state apparatus and put the needs of the state above their own. A free people should not need to do such a silly state worshiping act.
https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/the-socialist-roots-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/whats-conservative-about-pledge-allegiance
5 years ago
And anyone thinks this country has a future? Why?
5 years ago
What global society?
5 years ago
More power to them. It is every American’s constitutional right not to be forced to recite the Pledge, which is a reactionary anti-dissent screed to begin with.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/1/8/1051758/-
https://forward.com/culture/375318/why-we-need-to-abolish-the-pledge-of-allegiance-now/
https://religionnews.com/2014/09/09/atheism-pledge-allegiance-humanism-free-speech-boyhood-england/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-nielson/the-pledge-of-allegiance_b_2991729.html
5 years ago
Is this one of Gullen’s schools?
5 years ago
“Global society” — that right there tells you that this is a liberal, far left school
5 years ago
Regressive Libtards.
