Three issues here, I think.
First, what we think about the latitude that should be given to charter schools. If we claim to be PO'd over the horrible monolith that is public education I think we have to allow for latitude in the charter schools.
Second, to be honest, I have always struggled with the POA. On one hand, I don't pledge allegiance to the flag or necessarily to even the Republic for which it stands. It's all too totalitarianism for my tastes; reminds me of what Germans/Nazis or Russians/Soviets/Russians did/do and pledging allegiance to the flag was really pledging allegiance to the leader (Kaiser/Hitler or Tsar/Lenin-Stalin/Putin) even if the claim was pledging loyalty to the Vaterland (Fatherland) or Rodina (Motherland).
I would, however, pledge allegiance to the Constitution. This is why I loved my commissioning oath entering the Army; we swore/swear to support and defend the Constitution from which our Republic proceeds.
Third, the POA isn't mandatory (the Jehovah's Witnesses went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1943 over it). Old Order Amish and Mennonites don't recite the POA, either, if I recall correctly. And I would be against any attempt to make it mandatory.
So, for me, the charter school is free to do what they want. It won't be the POA, but a "poa." And the "poa" the school is considering is a POS. Wonder if the school will make it mandatory for students who choose to take a knee...? No way would I allow my kids to recite a "poa" to the "global community." But then again, given the type of school the charter probably is I wouldn't send my kids there in the first place.
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