15 yr. OLD SCHOOL KID got an A+ for this written poem TOTALLY AWESOME entry!

Painfully accurate, I give it an A as well.

Why do you think our country is in such disarray? Because we have ask God to stay out of our lives.
Good poem.

Excellent and very well put!!!

Great and wonderful. I will definately pass this on...Alpeaux

keep praying and get a handgun to put in your pack son.

You are so bad~ come on! lol~

Right on, kiddo!

This was so good I posted on facebook

Oh, you totally rock! Awesome.

Happy Sunday!

You make my day every day ....Happy Sunday my friend

Well, I doubt the origin and the back story but it is a good poem that I do agree with!

Marvelous ! This youngster gives me hope for the future!

Outstanding,thanks for sharing this Mr R,one in the eye for the heathern lib/lefties assuming, of course their collective single brain cell could even begin to comprehend it

Excellent!

WoWW that was just GREAT!!
Thanks for sharing!

Honestly I see some truth in this but I do believe it's quite biased. Even as an atheist I believe that one should be free to express their faith in whatever way suits them, but I don't know how blind one has to be to see that this poem is incredibly right-wing.

I will admit that it's well written, although if I were him I would have either removed of revised the Senior King/Queen lines as they didn't rhyme too well and honestly ruined the poetic flow for me.

If anyone disagrees with me, I'd be happy to discuss it.

Anyone can find fault in any thing. Look for the good and also the truth. It is possible the Queen was pregnant

Are you asking me to give an entirely biased opinion? Acquiescing to such a request would be kind of detrimental to my integrity, sir..

Also, I never said that it's impossible for the prom queen to be pregnant. I just said I would have removed them because the rhyming is sketchy. That said, those lines are also kind of insulting to his fellow classmates that he has to be around until he's 18, and perhaps it was unwise of him to let them know that he thought so lowly of them.

Your opinion is yours. some people always look for the bad and the faults and never smell the roses. Criticize and demean but only praise themselves.

Its a well written poem. The kid deserved an A whether you agree with his statements or not.

May GOD BLESS this kid be it a he or a she. With any luck and the help of the good LORD. Maybe he or she might be President of this our great UNITED STATES of AMERICA. Got to be better then what we have now.

Though I dared not to believe it I always somehow knew that a future generation of students would experience a time like this.

The student did an absolutely tremendous job!!! Isn't it a shame how TRUE it is!!!

Thanks Ed!

You're very welcome!!!

I am not sure where they don't or can't say the pledge, because in my state, they do in classrooms. It's expected.

In many states it is optional. They can live here and have the freedoms but do not have to Pledge Allegiance to the Flag. and cannot be forced to take part.

In my state, a student cannot be forced to say it. For example, Jehovah's Witness students have never said it from the time it was first introduced into the classroom over 50 years ago. The must stand repectfully, but they neither have to salute nor repeat the words. The pledge IS said, however.

Why would you want to force someone to take part? That's sort of what our country is about: We do have choices.

Personally. and this is my personal opinion anyone that lives in this United States of America, land of the Free and home of the Brave should have the Patriotic urge to stand and hold their hand over their heart and Pledge Allegiance to the Flag. Brave women and men have fought and died for this simple act of Allegiance. If you live under this flag and enjoy the freedoms then show respect for the flag that represents this country. We could be living under a different flag and cringing in terror for our lives

Our forefathers were smart. They didn't want to have anyone forced the way they were forced. The pledge is words. It's not actions. It was written, interestingly enough, by a self-professed socialist. The under God part was added by McCarthy and his anti-communist groups to supposedly keep godless communists from infiltrating the country, though, of course, any communist spy would have had no problem pretending to say the pledge. The flag is a symbol. I've know an awful lot of people who waved the flag on every occasion who were not patriotic at all in actions.

Getting upset because people do not wave a flag or salute it is not disrespecting those whose serve. Actions and what a person does speaks far more clearly than standing up and saying a pledge to s SYMBOL of our country. When all is said and done, there are an awful lot of politicians out there who wear flag pins and salute at every opportunity, but their actions are not in the best interests of our country, they have never personally served, nor have any family members served. Amazing, isn't it? That seems more disrespectful to me than forcing a child to salute the flag because his or her parents tell them not to do it.

I still say the flag may be a symbol but it represents this Country and the freedom we have. Why do you think they placed flags on territory won in war and why do we salute the Colors. Maybe my patriotism is deeper than others. If they don't care about the allegiance to the flag do they have allegiance to the country. I doubt it.

It's funny how people can dig their heels in about things. Personally, I have no problem saying the pledge or saluting the flag. Not only that, I feel that particularly at school, I need to be an example. We used to have a weekly flag salute that was led by one of the older students (this was in place of the daily ones done in each classroom). I had no flag in the library, but it was right outside of an interior bank of windows in the library. I would stand and salute, even though I wasn't required to do it. Students generally weren't in the library at that time, but *I* knew. If someone was looking in my window, I felt it was important for me to do, too. Eventually, I even actually got a flag for the library.

Kids do what their parents tell them. These kids are told by their parents NOT to salute the flag. It would be wrong of me to force them over their parents' objections. The best I can do is be an example and also to show them how to love and serve their country. There are many things that they can do.

I understand completely your position. My daughter is in the same position as a teacher. They can't be forced to pledge or anything really. If the parents raise enough stink about the most trivial thing they are exempt
I still say those who do not love this country enough to pledge allegiance to the flag then they need to be in some other country they really love rather than try to destroy what was built for us

I love that..........so true!!

He did a great job!

This kid obviously didn't know the religious views of the Founding fathers who were of the opinion that we should have separation of church and state. And in this prose, "nation under god" was not part of the original pledge. It was added in 1951

Quite obviously, it is YOU that needs a history lesson!!!

Considering that the founding fathers had NO FEDERAL Department of Education, your ASININE claim about the separation of church and state being meant to include schools by our founding fathers is strictly rubbish!!!


http://federaleducationpolicy...

The first Department of Education was established on March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 434).

I never typed that. A christians and all faiths are free to express themselves in student clubs, and any restriction of that would be illegal. So for christians to say they can't pray, carry bibles or meet as a group is rubbish

The sanctimonious statement that YOU DID TYPE was, "This kid obviously didn't know the religious views of the Founding fathers who were of the opinion that we should have separation of church and state." And that was what I replied to!!!