According to my mother and an editorial in today’s Houston Chronicle, it is now mandatory that Texas students recite the US Pledge as well as the Texas Pledge on a daily basis. Note: recite. Failure to do so will get you a pass to the office. Apparently this is some new bill passed in the Texas congress over the past summer…anyone have any verification for all that?
Okay…scouring hard to answer my own inquiry, I discover that Texas State Senate Bill 83, as signed by Gov. Rick Perry, mandates that all Texas pupils recite both the Texan and American pledges every morning.
Citations:
http://www.oaoa.com/columns/edit060803.htm
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=977129
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/Senate/Archives/Arch03/p060403a.htm
And now the kicker:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/78R/billtext/SB00083F.HTM
Which states, “(b) The board of trustees of each school district shall
require students, once during each school day at each school in the
district, to recite:
(1) the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag
in accordance with 4 U.S.C. Section 4, and its subsequent
amendments;”
Now, what’s this 4 USC Section 4 jazz about?
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MONTY: In your address bar type in, uk monarchy poll that should take you to the Guardian and from there any number of other links
Sure, but Texas is a different country.
How about you doing it, spogga, so we can ensure you and I will be addressing the very same thing?