The problem is that young school children are quite likely to view the pledge as affirming the existence of God and national subordination to God.

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We're just bodies to you. We're just bodies and shoulders and scarred knees and big bellies and empty wallets and flasks to you. I'm not saying something cliché like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot... imagine our absence. We're so present it's ceased to mean. We're environmental. Furniture of the world.

We're excited about what's happening with the school. God is blessing our school.

This is not an issue of just getting a fax out of the blue. That remains illegal under federal law.

The state is acting without jurisdiction.

They truly feel they have nothing left. I'm not sure what the end point will be. But I do predict there will be death.