Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly

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Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly - Lemmy.World

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”. Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it.  Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy movement.  Officials said students’ voices at the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School were “soft and weak” and “should be strengthened”. At Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School, teachers were told to “help students develop the habit of singing the national anthem loudly in unison”.

Shit like this is why the kneeling protests in the states never bothered me. I’m proud to live in a country with freedom of expression. This kind of forced nationalism is a cancer

The Pledge of Allegiance has entered the chat.

I’m aware it isn’t mandatory, but no one made that clear to me when I was a kid.

Here is a breakdown of laws in 47 states that require reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

A Texas teacher agreed to pay a $90,000 settlement this week after he was sued by a student on First Amendment grounds for requiring a class to write out the Pledge of Allegiance. The incident occurred in 2017 when teacher Benjie Arnold asked his class to write out the Pledge of Allegiance or receive a…

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That’s totally fucked up, and seems to be a violation of the first amendment, but IANAL

I believe so too. I’ve instructed my children to not recite the pledge (because atheism), and will absolutely make this my hill to die on. It’s bad enough we’ve got money with that bullshit on it.

It’s a stupid brainwashed idiot country and this shit drives me nuts.

The Pledge didn’t originally contain the words Under God, that was inserted in the 60s
1954 for the pledge, 1956 for the money.