Teachers don’t only hate kids, they hate the pledge of allegiance. At least one of my former teachers, Tom Zachek (writing about it in a recent Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel column) does.
Needless to say, his anti-pledge B.S. condemns reciting the pledge as “mindless drudgery.” This is an affront to the fact that public education has the market cornered on mindless drudgery. (Not to mention a monopoly on systematically neutering, sapping, and destroying the potential of entire generations, but hey, that’s not as bad as the pledge of allegiance, right?)
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