| At the urging of New York Community School District 3 board member Larry Sauer, the board voted unanimously to defy an edict from the central Board of Education requiring schools to conduct a daily recital of the Pledge of Allegiance. Said Sauer: "Requiring students to blindly repeat the pledge is no different than the Taliban requiring children to memorize the Koran and repeat it by rote, without understanding why or what they are saying." Chelsea-based District 2 - which last year formally prohibited students as young as 4 from "sexually harassing" other kids - wants to follow suit in defying the flag. |