CA high school student punished for dropping ‘under God’ from Pledge of Allegiance

[Curmudgeoness]

2. "If you lead the school in the pledge,

it must be delivered in the traditional way."

Ummmm, what is the "traditional" way? How far back should we go for "traditional"? I have always heard that "under God" was added in 1954, but it was not added in my school until much later, if at all. I never remember it with the "under God" in there, so I did not learn it that way. I still refuse to say it this "new-fangled" way, and I applaud the student for having the conviction to do it.

I am sure that the original writer of the pledge would be appalled at this addition to the "traditional" pledge:

Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change. He had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons. In his retirement in Florida, he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there.

http://www.oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm