[scuzdriver]

Students at Boulder High school are upset about the pledge. Go to CW2.com for the story. Sorry, I don't know how to link it. They are planning to walk out during the reciting of the pledge. They have also created thier own pledge. This makes me sad.

[ATrain]

I couldn't find it on the website. Just copy and paste the link from your browser bar and then Sly or Scorcho can shrink it to a tiny one.

[scuzdriver]

I think I got it.

7 News Team
Boulder Students Protest 'Under God' In Pledge Of Allegiance

Some Boulder High School students protested Thursday over having to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.

More than 50 students took part in the morning protest in the school courtyard.

The students are upset that the pledge includes the words "under God."


An alternate pledge written by senior Emma Martens was read to the crowd of students in the courtyard.

Her pledge says, "I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all."

Martens is president of the Student Worker activist club at the school.

Protesters said the Pledge of Allegiance violates the separation of church and state.

The courtyard protest was held at 8:30 a.m., the same time the Pledge of Allegiance was read over the school's loudspeakers.

A state law passed in 2004 requires schools to offer the opportunity to recite the pledge each day but does not require students to participate.

The protesting students, members of the Student Worker Club, want administrators to hold the pledge reading in the auditorium during each of the school's two lunch periods. Otherwise, they plan to walk out each Thursday when the pledge is read and recite their version, which omits the reference to God and adds allegiance to constitutional rights, diversity and freedom, among other things.

"Boulder High has a highly diverse population, not all of whom believe in God, or one God," said Emma Martens, a senior and president of the Student Worker Club, which has about a dozen members.

"We didn't think it was fair for the whole school to have to listen to it. It's almost religious oppression," she said.

Assistant Principal Lynn Donnelly said it was unlikely the recitation of the pledge would be moved.



Copyright 2007 by TheDenverChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[gymrat.chic]

That is extremely sad and obvious they need prayer.

[ATrain]

Please tell me that all they're really after is just the attention and that they're not actually serious.

[01LUGrad]

"one nation, part of one planet"

Man, that's scarry.

[PeterParker]

"We didn't think it was fair for the whole school to have to listen to it. It's almost religious oppression," she said.


Copyright 2007 by TheDenverChannel.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Um, I'm all for consitutional rights, and for the right of one to be a non-participator if they so choose; However, I'm sure some people of faith in other countries might take exception with this statement (i.e. I don't know, maybe some Jewish folks, some Irish Protestants/Catholics, etc.)

"one nation, part of one planet"

Man, that's scarry.

...I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so... because uhh some... people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should uh our education over here...

[thepostman]

dang public school!!

but seriously though, the pledge is what it is, you aren't forced to stand up a say it if you don't want to and if you are going to write a pledge make it a little more appealing then whatever the crap that was

[El Scorcho]

...with liberty, freedom, choice...

-10, redundant.

[Innocent Bystander]

I think I got it.

"We didn't think it was fair for the whole school to have to listen to it. It's almost religious oppression," she said.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!

[LUconn]

"I pledge allegiance to the UN and any decision they may make."

This is a case where a girl thinks she's smarter than she really is.

[PAmedic]

"I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all."

on behalf of all the other planets in the Milky Way galaxy, and all other galaxies in the other quadrants of space- I am offended and feel repressed for not having been included.

[scuzdriver]

Hopefully the people in Boulder aren't a true indicator of America.

It's too bad, one of the most beautiful cities you will ever see......but, I hate going there!