On Judge enters race against Wisconsin chief justice

Posted on November 18 at 5:12 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Clean campaign pledge? Along these lines, I'd like them both to tell me what they didn't like about the last two Supreme Court races. I think it would be most interesting for the two candidates to discuss the accusations that were made in the Gableman / Butler race and the Ziegler / Clifford race.

Judge Koschnick, what you think about the WMC ads discussing Butler's work as a public defender?

On Second chapter unfolds for Edgerton book, film fest

Posted on April 25 at 4:56 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

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On Japan meets Edgerton: New book discusses Rascal’s real-life origins

Posted on April 25 at 4:56 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

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On Pledge protest planned

Posted on April 25 at 2:13 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Here's what our Wisconsin law says about it. "Wis. Stat. 118.06 Flag, pledge of allegiance, and national anthem. 118.06(1) Every school board and the governing body of every private school shall cause the U.S. flag to be displayed in the schoolroom or from a flagstaff on each school ground during the school hours of each school day. 118.06(2) Every public school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem in grades one to 12 each school day. Every private school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem in grades one to 12 each school day unless the governing body of the private school determines that the requirement conflicts with the school's religious doctrines. No pupil may be compelled, against the pupil's objections or those of the pupil's parents or guardian, to recite the pledge or to sing the anthem."

Yes, it doesn't say anything about the language used. Yes, it means school kids don't even need to say the Pledge. A kid can decide what they want to do. They can't even be asked to or required to stand up for it. They can't be asked to place their hand over their heart. If a teacher does any of these things, they're going against State law. Of course, a kid can't be disruptive during the Pledge, just as they can't misbehave at any other time. School boards base their policies on State law. I guess we'd need to ask Edgerton students if their teachers are following the law.

For a little more Edgerton history, I encourage you to read about the Edgerton Bible case:

http://tinyurl.com/3oq4l2

It was a landmark case before our nation's Supreme Court in 1886 that helped establish our principles of religious freedom. Catholic parents complained that mandatory school readings of the Protestant Bible violated their freedoms. They won. Says the previous link, "Seventy years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer from the public schools in 1963, the Edgerton Bible case was one of the precedents that Justice William Brennan cited."