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Category Archives: Luster
What Does the Pledge of Allegiance Teach?
By Leyden Marks
In many schools across the United States, school children routinely stand to recite the contemporary Pledge of Allegiance in their classrooms, usually in the morning.
Some of the common arguments against this repetitive school-day exercise are familiar to me. (Some background on various text versions and the dissimilar complaints follows below). However. I haven’t heard before, from anyone else, one thing … Read more
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Tagged children, Definition, pledge of allegiance, under god, united states
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Living a Good Life
By LadyJulBug
Everyone wants to be happy.
Everyone wants to live a good life.
I don’t think those are over-generalizing assumptions about our species.
The path towards achieving these goals looks different for each person.
For me, it looks like education and science.
A few years ago, I was taking a course on Diversity in Education as part of my professional education minor requirements. In … Read more
Questions and Answers
By Leyden Marks
After recess, the children settled into their seats. It was time for social studies, and the youngsters (most of them, anyway) knew what to do. They had dutifully placed the appropriate text on their desks.
The teacher (holding her own copy open) instructed that they not yet open to the pages they had studied the day before. She intended to start with … Read more
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