A Texas mother is so proud of her kindergartner after she saw him stop to pray and recite the Pledge of Allegiance even even though he was already running late for school last week.
Royce Thompson recently posted a photo of her son on her Facebook page. The picture shows her son standing outside the door of his school, the Wollam Elementary School in Sante Fe.
"Proud mommy alert," she captions the photo. Thompson shares that at first, she could not understand what her son was doing. Other kids were walking past her son and she was telling him to go to school as well.
But the officer standing beside her son told Thompson to calm down because her son was "doing good" since he stopped to pray and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
"Since they do not have prayer in schools, he says a little prayer silently and that's exactly what he was doing," Thompson says. "I was so proud that he stopped and stood his ground and did not move as the other kids were going in and then took time out and prayed and did not even care or think twice about it. This is such a beautiful picture."
Other people seemed to think so, too, because the photo, which has now been made private, has received over two million views on social media.
Meanwhile, Thompson's son shares with KRIV that he was thanking God at that moment for giving him a wonderful day.
"I could not believe that he acknowledged that that was a moment [when] you need to stop and do the pledge," says Officer Cibby Moore of the Independent School District. "But he did. He just ignored all the other kids around him and kept on doing it. It was awesome."
