So you think that giving the taxpayers of Woodbury WHAT THEY ALREADY HAD A RIGHT TO is compromise?

The last position offered by Principal Martin and the one accepted by the School Board is that the Pledge be returned to the school during the morning free time prior to the start of the educational day and outside of the classroom. I have to inform School Board Chair Retta Dunlap and Principal Michaela Martin that our legal counsel, and ours is free, has advised us that this is not a good faith offer. Seems that for several years now, and based upon a Supreme Court ruling, that should only one student have requested a Pledge recitation meeting prior to the start of the school day and held on school property, the school would be powerless to deny it. Seems that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution extends to elementary school children. So what the Principal offered and the School Board affirmed as the last best offer is something that the pro Pledge movement already had a right to. To Principal Martin and School Board Chair Dunlap, this entire episode does not pass the smell test. To further make the situation insulting to the pro Pledge movement is that Chair Dunlap has gone on the record in the newspaper saying that the Pledge issue needs to be dropped. Exactly why the pro Pledge movement should drop the issue is unclear. Did we get anything that we did not already have a Constitutional right to? The morning Pledge recitation outside of the instructional day is not something that the school was empowered to prevent. The 310 plus taxpayers of Woodbury who signed the petition expected better than the fast deal they have been dealt. Now that we have legal counsel onboard, perhaps we will do some dealing of our own.