I know how the lefties are going to feel about this, especially the Colin Kaepernick supporters, but how do the rest of you feel about this? Should a high school kid be forced to "respect  the flag" and stand during the Pledge of Alliegiance, or does he/she have the first amendment right sit during the pledge?

Personally, I don't like the Pledge of Allegiance, especially the "under God" part that was added by Ike.  No one should be forced to make a pledge in which they don't believe.  It's a blatant violation of free speech. It is also NOT a precursor to continue living here, which is what ignorant goons like swallowpee believe.  Personally, I love America.  I just don't have to prove it by standing with my hand on my heart and reciting some pledge like a parrot.
And, just to be totally inconsistent, I happen to like the National Anthem.  Yes, it was written by a guy who owned slaves but the words are elegant and moving.  My preference is to stand and take my hat off, not because I worship the flag but just out of respect for those who do. I'm not much into singing along
I prefer "America the Beautiful."
I hope all this has confused the crap out of you, Wu.
PS: Did you know that many of the great fortunes made in 19th century America were made by selling opium to the Chinks?  Our famous clipper ships were designed to carry opium as well as tea.  The famous Low Library at Columbia was built with opium money.  Other American beneficiaries of ruined Chinese lives was the Forbes family as well as the Delanos (as in FDR).  Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The Supreme Court in 1943 made a decision on this matter.
 We don't live in Russia and this is America.
 Trump and his supporters just don't get it.

Reciting the pledge at school is complete waste of 120 seconds during the school day. Those 120 seconds could be used for something much more educational. Most students were born in the U.S.A they know they are Americans attending school in America.

but yes, I agree with you. I think she ABSOLUTELY has the right to sit her ass down during the government indoctrination pledge our government schools make the kids recite each morning. Jingoism is completely different from patriotism.

First, we have a once drunken knucklehead asshole at 17 who is now in line for the SC seat and now we have a young lady who decides to sit for the pledge of allegiance. But I ask myself, if I had a 17 yo child, which strait or conviction would I have my child take. Brewskis or social issues... I'd take the stance of the young lady. She's demonstrating a conviction in what she believes in. Like the pledge says ,"With liberty and justice for all". I have never walked in her shoes, or pretend to know what she's gone through, be it family, friends or her own personal story but I like her conviction...so I got no beef with what she's doing.
Also did anyone notice that Eric Reid signed with Carolina......jus saying

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Or maybe you're just drunk.  Opium did NOT come from China.  It was shipped TO China from India.  Please see link below.
Now, Wu, if you want to play the Pedantic Putz, at least try to be right.

Why would anyone take a job as a teacher? It has to be the lowest paying union job around. Not to mention those asshole kids you have to teach. You'd have to be a masochist to do that job.

A pledge of alligence app.

Because this post is actually kinda funny.  Luckily for you, your post above denigrating teachers is monumentally dumb.  If you don't think our kids need educating by the best possible people you are a hopeless ignoramus. This probably results from your having had really shitty teachers right up through the Fifth Grade when you dropped out/got thrown out.

The public school system is the perfect example of how socialism fails all of the interested parties involved. The students, the teachers, and even the state.

When I was 17 I was lugging around an M 60 machine gun, but I was most definitely a liberal AND I probably drank a LOT more beer than did Brett Kavanaugh, not to mention I smoked pot and fucked hookers as well, but if I wasn't in "this man's army" I may very well have refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance myself. I always kind of resented being forced to make some phony pledge to a piece of cloth and never actually recited it after age about 11 or so and simply mumbled a few words during the pledge. By the time I was seventeen most likely I would have had the guts to simply park my ass in my seat and not stand at all during the Pledge just like her.

The largest obstacle teachers face with unruly children is parents who show little or no  respect for authority and rules.  

So no one has ever said Kap was a cancer in the locker room dumbass.

Sorry fg, I would really like to discuss this with you, but you are entirely TSTTT.

He's correct that you're WRONG about Kap being a '"cancer in the locker room."  That has NEVER been alleged.  And he's right about Kap's unemployment being the result of owners too afraid of alienating a certain segment of their fan base.
Sadly but predictably, the rest of his post is idiotic.

Kraperneck  started his protests when Obama was  President.
Krapeneck was well known as the biggest cry baby in the NFL long before MAGA Trump was elected
   
  I agreed with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  when she said Kaepernick's protest is a disappointment.
Ginsburg  also mentioned   Kraperneck's  protest is dumb and disrespectful, similar to  burning the flag.

You can try and deflect, but you have nothing.

but if a team signed him now, he most certainly would be.

You're a smart guy bigguy, at least in the top three wisest TDS Lefties on  P&R.
  At one time you were the wisest Lefty here but the company you keep has lowered your intelligence.  
When you follow Jake's lead you are dumbing  down.  

Rupert Murdoch the same guy that owns both Fox fake News and the NY POST is proud of your stupidity.

So the real NFL fans realize Colin Kaepernick is better than some of the Qb's today.
This article backs up that point and watching football games.
You can see, some of these guys cannot even touch what Colin did in his career.

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I bet you don't even know he played in a Super bowl.

He has been arrested by the police, acquitted by a jury of his peers, and has been incarcerated following his acquittal. I have never heard him speak out about police or the criminal justice system.

During the Reagan years, our CIA turned a blind eye to a drug lord that was supporting the Contra rebels.  Allowed the spread of cocaine from LA to across your country, during the 80's drug war and crack cocaine; and unjust life sentence.  Corporations were throwing money at the government to keep other countries from becoming socialists/communist.  But they needed the drug money to support the Contras.  So with this story in my mind.... I wonder about the opioid epidemic seeming to follow our occupation in Afghanistan.  How our CIA allowed Afghanistan to continue to trade heroin, just all seems fishy to me with all the fentanyl overdoses and deaths.  Oxycontin drug company becomes billionaires.  Our government has a war on drugs that is padding everyone's pockets except the victims of addiction and the chronic pain patients dependent on medicine.  If you have ever followed me on TER PO board; you can imagine how happy that I am to see legalized marijuana.  My neurologist now offers a medical marijuana card to all his patients with PTSD, chronic pain, neurological & mood disorders.  And this is how the opiate crisis will be combated and won for many!

Which is a synonym for "was."  It's called a classic distinction without a difference.  Also, the Panthers' hiring of Eric Reid proves nothing.  He was NOT well-known for it especially compared to Kaepernick, who was the face of the entire movement and a total lightening rod for it.  YUGE difference.

I didn't include the whole story cause most know it. I was just mentioning the legal system part. And how that aspect played out.