What is the East Brunswick school board teaching our children? Who is this school board representing? What is the goal here?
What is next? Should our children have to speak English in our schools? Should they say the Pledge of Allegiance to our American flag? Should they even have an American flag inside the classroom? What do these school board members stand for? What do our young men in the military die for? One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all?
The board wants all this taken out of your children’s classrooms. The moral values and traditions a child learns are taken from home, school and community. The school board is trying to eliminate a tradition of many years, a prayer before an American football game. American hometowns have been doing this for generations. The board doesn’t want this to be a hometown filled with values and traditions. It wants to change the town to meet the needs of a group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The board says it’s for the “children,” but how many of you have taught your children to be against American hometown values? East Brunswick will be in every newspaper throughout our country as a place with no hometown American values, run by people who seek justice for anything other than what the rest of the country knows as the “American way of life.”
This is your town. Are you proud? This doesn’t just affect football or one teacher, it affects all the children and the whole community. The group representing our school board is an anti-religious, anti-American group. It is the organization that wants God to be taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance. This is just the beginning when you align yourself with a group like this.
Our courts decided in football coach Marcus Borden’s favor, and the school board members were satisfied with that decision until the group called Americans United for Separation of Church and State approached them.
The pregame football prayer is following what this group says it believes – if you don’t want to pray, you don’t have to. What is the agenda now? It leads me to believe this is the group’s way into our schools – taking things out, starting with the right to pray, and moving its way toward the flag.
What kind of advice is the school board acting on in appealing the court decision? I know it is not acting in my child’s best interest.
Darlene DeMarzo
East Brunswick