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Board of Ed Makes Pledge to Pledge
At their March 7 meeting, the District 13 Board of Education approved a motion to begin every meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Starting Wednesday, the District 13 Board of Education will begin their meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance.
On March 7, the board unanimously approved a motion to include the pledge as the first item in future meeting agendas.
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"Every day in our classrooms we ask our children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. We do it at our town meetings and our budget hearings. We don't do it here and I'm disappointed in that and I can't believe it took me 15 years to figure that out," said board member Norm Hicks, who proposed adding the pledge.
The orginal Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy and later modified to include the words "under God" in 1954.
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