School Board Receives Death Threats After News Reports on Pledge of Allegiance Rules

Kent Alberty has reported death threats against himself and his fellow Sioux Falls school board members after Fox’s Megyn Kelly and other news outlets reported a story about the town.

“A school district there has decided there’s just no time in the day to recite the Pledge of Allegiance despite a desperate request from a local vets group to keep the pledge,” Kelly said during a November 13th broadcast of The Kelly File.

Noting that the Pledge of Allegiance can be recited in 10 seconds, Fox reporter Trace Gallagher added, “which apparently is too long for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota school board, which has now voted not to require high school students to recite the pledge.”

“It wasn’t dropped. That wasn’t true at all,” Alberty claimed to his local KSFY station — though, to be fair, Gallagher and Kelly never said the pledge was dropped from the district. In reality, the board voted unanimously to not only take the veterans’ suggestion to require the Pledge of Allegiance at elementary and middle schools, but also decided to expand that requirement to high school assemblies. Previously, there were no requirement in the school district regarding the Pledge of Allegiance.

Alberty recounted some of the death threats he and the school board have received since the segment aired. “The one that I guess got my attention the most was that this person feels that all five of us should be lined up and shot,” he said.

Watch the local report below, via KSFY:

And watch the full Kelly File segment below, via Fox News:

[h/t Raw Story]
[photo via screengrab]

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