Woke North Dakota School Board Dumps Pledge of Allegiance, Claims It Isn’t ‘Inclusive’

if the pledge offends them, then they can just stand there and keep their mouths shut while everyone else recites it...🙄

Oh noes, better ship the school and the kids off to the gulags to learn some patriotisms. If we don't have it drilled into our heads every single day, we'll all turn into commies.

OMFG he shouldn't get reelected

Heathen, by now, Schools should teach kids it doesn't matter the heritage of God, its what God has provided that brings us together.

Absolutely true. No other so-called civilised country has to take a pledge of allegiance to God. About time. Well done ND!

…” diversion, equity ( not equality?) and inclusion”.
it is pointed out that GOD is Judeo-Christian. So are we to believe if a student is not Christian they are necessarily referring to and acknowledging a Judeo-Christian God?
If not mistaken there is no wording “Judeo-Christian” in the pledge of allegiance. God can be who the student chooses God to be.
I wonder, being as pointed out that there are staff and students who practice Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, if under the guises of diversity, inclusion, and equity (not equality?) are required to be taught and accepting of curriculum that may not be accepted by their faith and religious practices?
Does this school system include LGBTQ related studies?
I would find it hard to accept that ALL students as like staff so identified, would necessarily be accepting of such tenets which might in fact not be accepted in their religion.

Woke people are a bunch of wimps. Any little thing hurts their feelings.

THAT might be the problem - right there.
How about a school committed to learning!
And, a reminder to the kids and staff that America is a great place to learn doesn't hurt.

I thought they took "god" out of the pledge years ago?

So they do the most exclusive thing possible by banning it. Sure...makes complete sense. 🙄

I saw that on television. That guy is a whacko. So stupid he can barely keep track of his own Bull sh!t.

Good job on his part. No need for god anywhere in school unless it has a mythology class.

Inclusive or not, woke or not, it literally serves no purpose. It's little more than nationalistic propaganda.

And it was pointless even before conservatives amended it in the 1950s during the red scare (irony for red staters) to suddenly include theism — you can quibble all day over whether it means Zeus or Allah or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but it all boils down to theism — suddenly being introduced into the nationalist propaganda, never mind onto the money, when both functioned just fine without it before then ... conservatives are always looking for opportunities to reshape American life into their own minoritarian fantasy, for everybody, whether they want it or not, whether it serves any actual useful function or not).

Incidentally, while you people soil yourself over whatever contemporary bogeyman you can find, be it "wokeness" or something else, recognizing that the pledge is useless propaganda, that the midcentury introduction of theism into it and the currency is useless propaganda, and that only inserting the pledge relatively recently into sporting events is useless (and fairly unique to the US*) propaganda is not a 21st century phenomenon. Some of us didn't waste time observing the pledge in school even back in the 1980s, and it caused no problems.

Get over your damn propaganda and focus on the real world, real life, and living people instead of intangible nonsense for a change. You people spend so much time, decade after decade, LOOKING for problems, CREATING problems, all in the realm of the intangible world and other people's business, rather than seeing actual, legitimate problems right under your noses in the real world.

* https://www.vox.com/2016/9/3/12774172/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem-why

In other words, he's a pussy who is afraid of offending people.

Just to note, the decision doesnt eliminate the recital of the Pledge of Allegence in Fargo schools, just at school board meetings. And it had only atarted reciting the pledge a few months before, so it isnt a longstabding tradition.

The “under God” part was added in the 1950s. It’s not in the original version.

That was old speak.
Two plus two equals 5 remember?

Everyone seems to forget that the original pledge did not feature god at all. God was not originally on our money.

It's not some crime against the nation or the founders, if anything it is going back to more traditional roots.