A school district in Louisiana is making sure no kid even thinks about protesting during the national anthem.
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Student athletes at Bossier Parish Schools in Louisiana are required to stand for the national anthem, Superintendent Scott Smith decided.
Smith explained that the sports teams are voluntary extracurricular activities subject to rules, and if students do not wish to obey them, “they simply don’t have to be a part of that organization.”
“Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that actually requiring our student athletes to stand for something so reverent as our national anthem would be a national issue,” the superintendent told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday.
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“It’s almost saddening,” Smith remarked. “We have many veterans that live in our community.”
He lamented the NFL players’ decision to bring the national anthem into the protests.
“If they felt that whizzing of that bullet by their head, if they saw their family members come in without an arm or a limb, I think they may be singing a different tune, and it may sound a lot like the national anthem.”
I’m not sure this is the right answer to the problem because now you’re forcing people to pretend to be patriotic, and that never works. On the other hand, at least it takes the issue completely off the table so that they can just play ball…