Anyone else ridiculed for not standing during national anthem or pledge?

Today during my 2nd hour class, I didn't stand up for the pledge. My right to protest. Well, fellow classmates and my teacher started a debate over whether it was RIGHT or not! This is a chemistry class, mind you. The teacher asked why I didn't stand and I said that my respect for this country has worn out. And they said I should get out. God wouldn't I love to get out! But I can't afford a ticket to Canada much less an apartment or house.




Anyone else have this issue?

 

i never got a whiff of trouble. it wasn't even protest. i was just lazy.

 

I never really had much problem with that. By the time I was old enough to know better, we no longer recited that in school. If ya don't wish to observe such things, do continue to refuse.

 

The system hung up around the time he was posting. I've accidentally made double posts before too when the system locks up.

 

I think most people would get in a lot less trouble if they just said they were lazy as opposed to saying they don't like the country.

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2nd hour? Does your school say the pledge every hour?

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well, it WAS SoCal, too. there were lots of kids saying they were protesting, when the fact was they just didn't care. and the occaisional jehovah's witness and such. but i think a lotta people take themselves too seriously and really enjoy wallowing in the fact that perhaps they may have irritated someone with their political views. it's so TITILLATING!! bah humbug, i say. it's often the same thing with people claiming to be crazy, when the closest they've ever actually gotten to crazy is WANTING to be crazy. which, when you think about it, isn't really crazy at all. who WOULDN'T wanna throw all their problems and mistakes on some syndrome? get rid of the guilt and stuff....

i'm rambling.

 

Not standing is a good way of learning about the other people. It's what's known in engineering as the impulse response. You get to see what some people really think and how difficult it is for them to emotionally grapple with such a trivial issue as not standing for a pledge.

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Bravo to the teacher for seeing a teaching opportunity and using it.

When you say "they said I should get out." I presume that you mean the other students thought you should move out of the US.

It is your right to protest. That doesn't mean that others will agree with you. Nor need they be pleasant about it. They don't even have to respect you. For any worthwhile protest, you will be in the minority and disliked (either for the position you hold or for the disruption caused by your protest.)

Its too bad that you want to give up on the US. By the way, was there a specific issue you were protesting or was is a general "I don't like the US" statement?

 

It would be interesting if one day the whole class refused to stand.

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you know, i have a compulsive desire to do just that. i tend to do it when i first meet people. i like to know all i can about them before committing myself to any sort of relationship. i just didn't know it had a name.

 

i very much like what you're saying here. a lotta time people thing they shoudl be cuddled for their protests, but the entire point of a protest is to make an unpopular stance, otherwise you would just go along. just as you have a right to protest, other's have a right to make their own view known. as long as they're not beating you up or damaging your property, let it be. you're not protesting to be popular, right?

 

Employers love to do that stuff at interviews. Jolt the prospective employee and see how he reacts.

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You have the right to protest, and the classmates have the right to ridicule you. Pretty sad you gave up on this wonderful country.

 

One other thing is that if your position is popular, there is less need to protest.

I forget who said "The only cause worth supporting is the lost cause; all others are mere effects".

 

exactly. it seems so simple.