History Buff?

chrisw said:
1892 to 1942 - the available legal censure for non-compliance with the Oath of Allegiance.

Punishments for Students
  • Expulsion and Suspension: Refusal to perform the pledge and its accompanying salute (historically the Bellamy salute) was legally classified as "insubordination." Students were routinely expelled or suspended from public schools.
  • Classification as Delinquents: Because expelled students were no longer in school, state authorities often classified them as unlawfully absent or "habitually truant." This allowed courts to declare the children legally delinquent.
  • Reform School Institutionalisation: Once declared delinquent by a juvenile court, children could be legally removed from their homes and sent to state reformatories or parental detention schools.

Legal Penalties for Parents
  • Criminal Fines: Under state compulsory attendance laws, parents were legally required to keep their children in school. When a child was expelled for refusing the oath, the parents were prosecuted for violating truancy laws and faced steep financial fines.
  • Imprisonment: Parents who refused to pay the truancy fines or continued to back their children's non-compliance faced jail time for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
  • Loss of Parental Rights: In severe cases, the state attempted to permanently remove children from their parents' custody on the grounds of parental neglect or unlawful non-compliance with state education mandates.

………….O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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A truly free country would have allowed the kids & their parents to side with whomever they wanted - be that the USA, Nazi Germany, The Empire of Japan or the Soviet Union. War or no war.

In these enlightened times, we know that a country will do just fine, no matter who lives there, whoever owns their allegiance or what they believe.

FREEDOM!!1!!

No country is the "land of the free". None has ever existed. There are compelling reasons why this is the case. So choose which cult to be a member of, or decide to be a libertariahahahahahan. Sorry. Couldn't keep a straight face there.
What's everyone's preference? Which cult? Not deciding is getting your decision made for you, of course.
 
You did say Dianne Abbott?

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