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In a backroom battle reminiscent of the strife that toppled Harvard’s president last week, faculty members of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have in recent days clashed with their dean, Alan A. Altshuler. The battle reached a boiling point this week, when the Harvard Corporationâ?...
“From my experience in the schools, many of them don’t do it,” he said. “Kids in Cambridge schools refuse to do the pledge on a daily basis.”
While Schuster expressed a mixed allegiance to the pledge, most of his fellow committee members said that the pledge is important.
“I say the pledge and I believe in God and I believe in the pledge,” said senior School Committee member Alfred Fantini. “I’m a big believer that the American flag should be flown in every school. Iâ?...
School Committee member Joseph Grassi said that attention paid to Schuster’s anti-pledge stance is distracting the committee from its stated goal of closing the achievement gap between minority and white students.