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Posted on 10/29/2001 5:41:37 PM PST by demkicker

Last week, my husband's company sent him (with other fellow employees) over to Carroll Academy (423 W. Gulf Bank - Houston, TX 77037 - Phone: (281) 878-0340. The ocassion was Red Ribbon Week, which is a "Don't Do Drugs" program. My husband and his fellow employees were waiting in the school's office for the morning announcements to commence before getting their first group of students. What happened next was shocking.

A woman started the morning announcements and then proceeded to say, "Now we'll recite the United Nations Pledge For Peace." Not, the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America! My husband managed to contain himself knowing that making a scene at that particular time and place would only make things worse. He couldn't wait to get home and tell me about it to see if my reaction matched his.

That night, I searched the internet to see what the UN Pledge said, but couldn't find it anywhere. My mistake was typing in "Pledge to the United Nations". The next day, I called the school under the guise of a possible move into the district. I told the lady who answered the phone that I heard they recited something "really neat" about the United Nations, and asked if she could fax me a copy.

I don't know if the principal (Kenny Ryan) got suspicious or what, but he got on the phone while the woman was looking for a copy to fax to me and asked if he could help me. I told him the same story and inquired about the United Nations Pledge and asked if they recited it everyday. I'm happy to report that he said they didn't, but that they were reciting it all week because they were doing "a unit" on the United Nations and that they planned on incorporating more international studies units, advocated by the United Nations, into their cirriculum.

When I asked if this United Nations "unit" was in Social Studies, he said yes, but that they were incorporating it into other subjects as well and gave math as an example!

FYI, this school is in a run down part of town, between Interstate 45 and Airline Road on Gulf Bank. The school is mainly made up of minorities and the principal told me that they pride themselves on their bilingual education program. They even call it The Carroll Academy of International Studies! My husband said that he noticed the artwork, posters and pictures in the school pertained to foreign counties.

Now, take a deep breath and read:

THE UNITED NATIONS PLEDGE FOR PEACE

I pledge in my daily life, in my family my work, my community, my country and my region, to:

Respect all life
(Respect the life and dignity of each human being without discrimination or prejudice)

Reject violence
(Practice active non-violence)

Share with others
(Share my time and material resources to put an end to exclusion, injustice, and political and economic oppression.)

Listen to understand
(Defend freedom of expression and cultural diversity)

PRESERVE THE PLANET
(Promote responsible consumer behavior)

Rediscover Solidarity
(Working together as one unified world)

I am absolutely horrified and disgusted that ANY school in America would want their students to recite the United Nations Pledge For Peace.... EVER! I am especially offended that this school picked this particular time, while we are at war, to indoctrinate these unfortunate children!

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