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New Texas Pledge Law To Cost School Districts
Schools Must Display Texas Flags In Classrooms
POSTED: 10:47 a.m. CDT August 14, 2003
UPDATED: 8:59 a.m. CDT August 18, 2003
SAN ANTONIO --
Students in Texas public schools will be required to recite a pledge
of allegiance to the Texas flag beginning in the 2003-2004 school
year.
A new Texas law mandates that students recite the Texas pledge after
reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag.
At a convocation Wednesday for teachers in the Northside Independent
School District, teachers were given a card that has the words to the
Texas pledge.
"I think that we should respect our country and our state and we need
to support our state by having the children say the pledge every
morning," said Grady Evans, a teacher.
"It's one nation, so why should we pledge allegiance to the state? I
don't know? I think it's dumb," said Sarah Ford, a Warren High School
student.
The new law will also cut into school district budgets.
Every classroom will be required to display the Texas flag.
For Northside ISD, which has 5,000 classrooms, the cost of purchasing
flags at $10 a piece comes to $50,000.
District officials said teachers will be asked to display temporary
Texas flags that were printed in the Sunday edition of the San Antonio
Express-News until the district provides them with a real flag.
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