American Student Punished for Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge

[RugersGR8]

Would you believe this happened in Texas?



http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/american-student-punished-for-refusing-to-recite-mexican-pledge.html
American Student Punished for Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge
By Todd Starnes
Feb 27, 2013


"Ironically, the school district has a policy that prohibits a school from compelling students to recite the American Pledge of Allegiance."

 

[ignerntbend]

On my first day of school at Gonzales Elementary, our teacher told us to bow our heads and pray to Jesus for a candy bar. We did, with no results.
Then she told us to bow our heads and pray to Karl Marx for a candy bar. When we finished our prayers, there was a candy bar.

 

[ignerntbend]

That was 1964. Wudn't no innerwebz back then. Just Reader's Digest. We got by as best we could.

 

[ignerntbend]

If we could be serious for a moment, you can't legally compel a student to recite the plege of allegience to the flag in any school district in this nation. It's the result of a court decision in the 1940's. The Jehova's Witnesses consider the flag to be a graven image. Their book won't allow them to pledge allegience to such a thing. Religion thing. Let their whackadoo chirrens be exempt from the pledge. That was the judgement of the court.

 

[HiredHand]

Pobrecita.

 

[ignerntbend]

So he was required to participate in a lesson in Spanish class. Why would a guy like him take Spanish class? Taking Spanish class is a voluntary activity. Didn't he know that they might require him to participate in a lesson such as this? Learning words. Learning Spanish words in Spanish class. What's it leading to? Oh.My.God.

 

[HiredHand]

At best the student was only half-American.

 

[ignerntbend]

At best the student was only half-American.

I beg to differ. He may be as much as 5/8ths American, and I say that without having done any research whatsoever. I'm pretty much just pulling this info from out my ass, and it doesn't look good.

 

[HiredHand]

I beg to differ. He may be as much as 5/8ths American, and I say that without having done any research whatsoever. I'm pretty much just pulling this info from out my ass, and it doesn't look good.

The thread title is misleading, the student is a Mexican-American.

 

[ignerntbend]

The thread title is misleading, the student is a Mexican-American.

Well, so the plot thickens. 1/2, 5/8ths, 11/16ths. Who is this guy really? I say we send him back where he came from.