Standing Up for All
Gregory A. Clark served as a liaison between Joshua’s family and Joshua’s school and school district. Joshua and his mother have approved publication of... Read More
Shake Things Up by Sitting Out the Pledge of Allegiance
Public schools are supposed to teach kids to think critically, right? Students should be learning to apply rational analysis, assessing evidence, and reaching logical... Read More
Louisiana School Fails to Change Pledge of Allegiance Policy, Requires Students to Stand
The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center criticizes the Lafayette Parish School System in Lafayette, La., for failing to update its Pledge of... Read More
The Ethical Dilemma: No, You Don’t Have to Stand for the Pledge
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More
Liberty and Justice for All? California Student Suspended for Boycotting the Pledge of Allegiance
At this time last year, as students were returning to school after summer break, the American Humanist Association launched its Boycott the Pledge Campaign,... Read More
For Courageous Students: the AHA Has Your Back
If America’s Supreme Court justices could have spent a day this spring at Valencia High School, they would have seen decades of legal theory... Read More
Contest Winner: How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Thank you to the over 100 entries for our “How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?” Contest! We read through every email and... Read More
Contest: How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Many humanists share Herb Silverman’s sentiment in his recent article for the Washington Post’s On Faith: ‘under God’ isn’t the only thing wrong with... Read More
What We’re Learning from the Pledge Kids Critical thinking is often met with hostility in American schools
The American Humanist Association’s Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, which encourages a boycott of the Pledge of Allegiance until the “under God” wording is... Read More
Reactions to the Don’t Say the Pledge Campaign
Last week the American Humanist Association launched its Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, encouraging Americans to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance when it’s... Read More