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one school in massachusetts is sending home permission slips, yep, for parents to decide whether it's okay for the kids to recite the pledge. sarah underwood of wfxt has the story. >> reporter: the devotion school in brookline hasn't said the pledge of allegiance in ten seven years, so when the principal issued a permission slip of sorts asking parents to fill it out so their children can participate. >> i think that that's perfectly reasonable. >> i think that is a little strange. >> reporter: he said, quote, under our constitution neither teachers, nor students can be mandated to participate in this exercise and went on to say whatever decision your child makes will be fully respected. >> mr. martinez will do it over the pa system. that's great. some students will stand, some will not. some will recite, some will not. some of our teachers will stand and recite, some will not. that's all okay.
that's too bad. 28 minutes before the top of the hour. pessimism for patriotism? a school principal who required students get signed permission slips from their parents to say pledge of allegiance is now backing down on that idea. >> at the devotion school in brookline, massachusetts, allowing its students to cite the pledge of allegiance without a permission slip. the school's principal says the permission slips were meant to facilitate conversation between parents and their students and it's history, ok. start talking. >> they talked a lot about it and now they don't. meanwhile, on this day before christmas eve, let's take a look because we know a lot of people are traveling today. it's temporarily stopped raining a bit which is thankful news. as you can see, some widely scattered snow flurries in portions of the northeast and in
rick: well, you've heard the saying on broadway, the show must go on. well, go on it is for broadway's spider-man musical, but with new safety measures in place. performances are to begin for the first time since p christopher tyranny fell 30 feet. investigators say the crew made the necessary safety adjustments. tyranny's fall has been ruled human error by a performers' union. several actors are outraged calling for lawsuits against the show's directors and producers. >> do you remember saying the pledge of allegiance in school? i did it every day. well, did you need permission to do it?
you didn't think about it. >> i pledge allegiance -- >> reporter: the devotion school in brookline hasn't said the pledge of allegiance in seven years, so when the principal decided this week to reinstate it, he issued a permission slip of sorts asking parents to fill it out so their children can participate. >> i think that that's perfectly reasonable. >> i think that is a little strange. >> reporter: but in the note he said, quote, under our constitution neither teachers, nor students can be mandated to participate in this exercise and went on to say whatever decision your child makes will be fully respected. >> mr. martinez, like some of our other principals, will do it over the pa system. that's great. some students will stand, some will not, some will recite, some will not. some of our teachers will stand and recite, some will not. that's all okay. >> reporter: all he intended to do was encourage discussion, but the mere thought of a permission slip to recite the pledge set off a firestorm instead. >> for kids under a certain age