School required permission slips for Pledge of Allegiance

Massachusetts - A Brookline school is now saying permission slips won’t be necessary for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Beginning next month, all students at the Devotion School will say the Pledge over the school’s intercom. The Brookline superintendent says while it may seem extreme, it’s necessary. It is state law to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day, but courts have ruled students have the right not to participate....More