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Whatever Hillary has
to say about her future is moot because she lies about
everything. But this next thing ...
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you’re in a Spanish class and you have to sing the National Anthem of
Mexico,” Glenn began, explaining the controversy’s nuances. “You have a
problem with that. All right. Then you’re asked to recite the Pledge of
Allegiance. You have a problem with that. Well, yeah. I’m not pledging
my allegiance to Mexico. But you‘re told not to worry about it because
the words don’t ‑‑ they’re just words. They don’t mean anything. Well,
then so now I‘m insulting Mexicans and Mexico because now I’m just
devaluing the words of their pledge? Something’s not right, and it’s
happening down in Texas. A girl came home, told her father about it in
Spanish class. She didn’t do it. Dad’s on the phone with us now. [Glenn
Interviews Dad of TX Girl Who Refused to Recite Mexican Pledge in Class]
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Hey, when I was in Catholic school, the Protestant kids (there were a couple) didn't have to go to Mass when we did.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin,...
Don't suppose they're also gonna do the España national anthem and pledge.
ReplyDeleteNope, reckon this Spanish teacher thinks that Mexico is the only country that speaks Spanish.
(What? Yeah, okay, or Cuba's.)
I saw the video. It looked as if they had to do a half ass, horizontal, National Socialist / Flalange salute. Imagine the stink that would be raised if they were made to Pledge Allegiance to the US Flag?
ReplyDeleteFreddie Sykes
Leelu, that's ok. It's a private school and they can make their own rules and if the protestant kids don't like them they can leave. Public school not so much. This should never have happened, or there should have been an opt out.
ReplyDeleteMy Lutheran children spent their first 8 years in Catholic Grade and Middle school. We told them that while there they would do things the catholic way. At home they would do things the Lutheran way.
ReplyDeleteThey had to go to Mass with the other kids and fully participate to the limits the Catholics would allow them. For example during communion they were told to just cross their arms and they would receive a blessing instead of the host. When my youngest daughter was in 2nd grade she was shocked to find out she wasn't Catholic.
When I was in public school, my French teacher made us learn the US pledge and the national anthem in French. We recited the pledge daily in class. We learned the first stanza of the french national anthem as a translation exercise, but never sang or recited it in class. The main literature we had to read was Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I can see where I would want my kids to know that Mexicans pledge to "always be loyal to the principles of freedom and justice that makes this an independent, human and generous nation, to which we dedicate our existence."
ReplyDeleteThey will then respond, "Yeah, well, if it's so great, why are people leaving the country in droves?"
I've found you can often learn more from a bad example than you can a good one.