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Posted on 11/27/2011 6:19:24 PM PST by GeronL
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas - Every day students in Texas public schools pledge allegiance to the flags of the United States and Texas.
But when a teacher in a Rio Grande Valley high school assigned students to stand and pledge allegiance to the Mexican flag and sing Mexico's national anthem, one student refused.
The resulting controversy has one East Texas lawmaker wanting changes in the state's curriculum on how culture and patriotism are taught in schools.
15-year-old Brenda Brinsdon entered her sophomore year at McAllen ISD's Achieve Early College High School just wanting to do well in her classes.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
Well with 30 million new Mexicans voting in the South West (thank you Newt) the teacher is just preparing her students for the future. US South West returned to Mexico.
>> so distant past which did force children to pledge their allegiance to the state.
You’re confusing the United States with Nazi Germany. One country liberates the other persecuted. We’re also talking about rearing children; something quite different than forcing adults into compliance.
If public school children should be allowed to deny the Flag, why not let them deny attendance? We’re all paying for this, we all have a say.
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About as much force and pressure as being put on a 15 year old girl who refuses to say the pledge to a foreign country, and sing it’s national anthem.
ootlanders are zee enemiez, si habla!
It’s a Spanish language class, why not the Spanish national anthem?
Why should students in a public school in the United States of America pledge to any other country or sing another other country’s anthem in an American school?
This is not right. We need answers about why this travesty is acceptable.
“We need answers about why this travesty is acceptable.”
Ask Perry...
“Fire the wench now!!!”
And maybe the governor...
We are talking about school children,who are not of majority age and possibly many of whom are not citizens of this country.
We,the adult citizens of the United States of America,do not have to tolerate minors and/or citizens of other countries,disrespecting our laws,traditions and language,including the pledge of allegiance,which has become a part of our popular tradition. We should contact our representatives right away and voice opposition.
Students in this country should never give pledges to any other nation while in public school. I understand learning in foreign language classes,but there are other ways to learn the language and traditions of other countries,rather than pledging to their nations.
As I understood the article,the controversy was about pledging to Mexico,a foreign country, in an American public school.
I remember learning how to say the “Pledge Of Allegiance” OF THE USA in Spanish, in Spanish class! That was surely a long time ago; about 1972-1974 (high school), and in college in 1975!
Funny, I was never asked to pledge allegiance to France when I was in high school French class.
With a boatload of open-borders politicans in this country, there doesn't seem to be much resistance to it either.
GUILTY!.
I wasn’t either. When our family was living on the East Coast several years ago, we had a French teacher who came to our class and taught us conversational French. Of course, it was in elementary school, and they didn’t go into the grammar too awfully much! Nor did they get political about learning a language, or about a country. Maryland was still not as liberal as they are now in many places that they are now! I didn’t take Spanish until high school, and first year of college.
They never, ever taught us to say/made us say, the pledge of the country(s), or sing an anthem. As I said, they did teach us how to say our American pledge in Spanish! I can still remember most of it. Back then, most teachers were still pretty proud Americans! Many of our Spanish teachers weren’t actually Hispanic themselves; however, I believe that being in Utah, they were probably returning missionaries and learned it that way! :^)
Oops, I repeated my self in second paragraph! I guess I didn’t proofread very well! :^(
And that’s the first paragraph... (need more coffee..)
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