A group of students in Boulder, Colorado walked out of school during the pledge of allegiance this past Thursday. In an email to Rocky Mountain News, the president of the Student Worker club at Boulder High School wrote that the protesting students were concerned that the pledge takes away from school time and that the phrase “one nation, under God” violates the separation of church and state. “Boulder High has a highly diverse population, not all of whom believe in God, or One God,” she wrote.
Once outside, an alternate pledge written by a Boulder High senior was read to the group:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all.”
Various news sources offer conflicting accounts of the number of students participating in the walk-out, with the majority reporting fifty students physically leaving the building and as many as a hundred watching from the inside.
