Walk Out

A more recent rebellion against the pledge of allegiance caused about a dozen high school students not only to leave the room during the pledge of allegiance, but also to revise their own version of the pledge. In a peaceful protest at Boulder High, students took a stand for what they said was “about a separation of church and state” (http://www.rockeymountainnews.com/). The principal of the school said “We’re proud of the kids… if they don’t like something, they’re following a democratic process of telling the community that they don’t like it” (www. RockyMountainNews.com). Perhaps this story show the progress our nation is making towards becoming a more tolerant and more open-minded society. The beginning of the article showed the students argument and their reasoning for protesting the pledge, and the end of the article offered a contrary viewpoint of one of the other students from Boulder. The writer chose to keep this news story relatively short. This may have been in hopes of avoiding a heated debate and in order to keep their own opinions from surfacing, or possibly the writer didn’t have a strong opinion in the matter.

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