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In a message dated 6/18/2004 3:26:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm still looking for the process by which any kid in the Elk Grove school district in California can opt out of this state- and district-required exercise, short of suing. Is there really such an opt-out provision in California? And I"m still looking for the process by which an objecting student can opt out of "let's pretend to be a __________" this week. (The case involved instruction about Islam, but of course, the same problem is presented by every "Lets pretend" lesson.)
Actually, with respect to the pledge, I thought that flag salutes could not be compulsory against conscientious objection since as long ago as Barnette, but perhaps the Supreme Court retrenched and I missed that case. If Ed's point is that persons who have no conscientious basis for objecting to the pledge CAN be required to recite it, I suppose he's right about that. But I'm left to shrug my shoulders and give a constitution-bound sigh.
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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