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Rockford dad arouses fear at school when he objects to the way kindergarteners say the Pledge
Pat Cunningham
The Internet is abuzz these days about THIS STORY regarding a Rockford man’s objections to the way the Pledge of Allegiance was recited one day last week at an elementary school in Kane County:
A Kane County Sheriff’s deputy was stationed for the second day Friday at Mill Creek Elementary School near Geneva, in reaction to a parent’s protest of how children were saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
But the parent being investigated maintains he is not a threat to children’s safety: “America, God and children are what is important to me,” said Colin McGroarty of Rockford.
School officials called ...