A charter school in Atlanta announced this week that students will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
Lara Zelski, elementary campus president of Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, said Tuesday that the choice was “an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community.”
“Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly obvious that more and more of our community were choosing to not stand and/or recite the pledge,” Zelski said in a statement.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, students will have a chance recite the pledge later in the day.
Instead of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning, staff at the charter school will construct a “school pledge that we can say together at morning meeting.”
“This pledge will focus on students’ civic responsibility to their school family, community, country and our global society,” Zelski said.
