Texas High School Forces Students To Recite Mexican National Anthem And Pledge Of Allegiance!!!!!!!!!!
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Madeleine MorgensternStudents in a Texas public high school were made to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance as part of a Spanish class assignment, but the school district maintains there was nothing wrong with the lesson.
It happened last month in an intermediate Spanish class at Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas — a city located about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Wearing red, white and green, students had to memorize the Mexican anthem and pledge and stand up and recite them in individually in front of the class.
That didn’t go over well with sophomore Brenda Brinsdon. The 15-year-old sat down and refused to participate. She also caught it all on video:
“I just thought it was out of hand, I didn’t think it was right,” she told The Blaze. “Reciting pledges to Mexico and being loyal to it has nothing to do with learning Spanish.”
She said she was particularly offended because the presentations in teacher Reyna Santos’s class took place during “Freedom Week,” the week after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and on U.S. Constitution Day — the same day as Mexico’s Independence Day.
“Why are we doing their independence when it‘s Freedom Week and it’s also Constitution Day?” Brinsdon said.
Brinsdon said she complained to the school principal, Yvette Cavazo, who told her it was part of the curriculum and that she should participate. Her father, William, also got involved, calling the school district superintendent to complain.
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Dixienc 2011/10/17 22:22:38What Do You Think?
+9If this had been an American History class and the teacher had made everyone wear red, white, and blue and recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the National Anthem all the bleeding heart liberals on this thread would have been screaming to high heavens about it. You just can't get past the hypocrisy that is the leftist in this country. Good for Brenda for standing up for her convictions.
The very fact that this was an 'assignment', ie to LEARN the pledge and the song tells me that the teacher meant it to happen one way or another.
There was nothing wrong with this assignment.
I have no idea what the hell white people in this country will do when they're no longer the majority. Maybe, at some point, they'll understand the need for diversity or, better yet, maybe we can just ship their sorry asses back to Europe. Of course, I doubt they could survive in Europe.
"I'll stick to english and maintain a postive life as a legal citizen"
How do you know the kids in that class weren't citizens?
I would walk out of the school run home and get a flag and parade it around in front of those traitor teachers siting the Pledge of Allgiance in English!
Fact: ALL students had the choice to opt out and get another assignment as was little whiny Brenda. Obviously her classmates are much more mature and less insecure then her.
For people who are appalled: If you go to the Olympics what do you do when they are playing another country's anthem? Throw tomatoes?
Oh, and for my middle school Spanish class we were offered to actually GO to Mexico. Bet those damned liberal teachers in their sneaky ways were trying to get us to defect from America and become Mexicans! *sarc*
Maybe whiny ass Brenda was failing Spanish.
And if I had kids that young, I would NEVER allow them to go to Mexico.
As an American citizen I pedge no allegiance to any other country except American, I will bow down to no other country.
As so common in todays schools, this is an example of a teacher forgetting her place and her job. In this instance, she directed her teaching students of a second language to teaching them of social studies of Mexico. Not her job and this teacher needs to understand that as an American citzen we are not to pledge allegiance to any other country...she should know this if she is an American citizen herself.