We read:
"Students 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.”
When Brenda made clear she would not stand up and recite the pledge, she was given an alternative assignment: an essay on the history of the Mexican revolution.
School district spokesman Mark May defended the presentations, saying it’s a state requirement for upper-level language classes to teach about foreign culture.
According to the state’s Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards, students are expected to gain “knowledge and understanding” of other cultures and use the language to demonstrate understanding of different practices and perspectives. There are no specific requirements about learning to recite pledges or anthems.
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There are certainly other ways of teaching Western Spanish and Mexican history
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More reasons end end compultrary schooling an ablish the DEPT of BRAINWASHING and bring back home schooling
Hey, it's Mexas. What would you expect. Most Americans are too busy watching "reality" TV shows to have noticed that the southern half of Mexas is not even a part of the US anymore. Almost every public official down there can barely speak English, if at all.
What will history say about a society that sits by and tolerates people simply walking into their country, illegally, then "demanding" that they be cared for in every way possible? I wonder how history will describe this nation of "formally free" people, who have become the worlds largest heard of sheep.
When I was in sixth grade Spanish class, we said the pledge of allegiance in Spanish, but it was a translation of the American one.
The source article has a video of the classroom.
While I do not have a problem with the students learning a pledge or a national anthem of another country as part of an assignment, I do have an issue with part of that assignment requiring the students to stand and sing a national anthem or to mimic placing their hands on a Bible as required by this teacher.
As the courts have ruled such actions cannot be required of students when reciting the United States' Pledge of Allegiance or when singing the National Anthem, the same protection should be given to students who do not wish to stand or place their hands on an imaginary Bible.
Using a pledge or anthem as a strictly academic exercise is fine. Imitating or endorsing an actual pledge to another country is so far across the line of what is appropriate you can't see it from here.
La cucaracha is a neat song to learn,,,is not that the national anthem of the mexico,,i guess laroaches will be happy.
Why not the Spanish national anthem and pledge? They spoke spanish in Spain before they spoke spanish in the third world cesspool of Mexico.
Okay everyone, let's be quiet for a minute. The ACLU should be shouting at and suing the school and getting the teacher fired any minute now...
I doubt the Spanish (in Spain) have a "pledge of allegiance" even if they have a national anthemn. Regular public pledges to a country (especially demanded of schoolchildren) is one step away from political indoctrination and loyalty to a particular government.
A confident democratic country should not need such enforced "patriotism".
The parents should be attend the next meeting of the BOARD of EDUCATION and demand a end to this indoctrination to the NEW WORLD ORDER
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