Mom Upset Over Son's Assignment to Recite Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish

[joshuasmaximus]

She should be mad that he was forced to say it at all. That pledge only means something if you want to say it.

 

[RidgeHunter]

My 11 year old signed his DFY(Drug Free Youth) pledge card, wife and I found a really nice desert wine at a vineyard we went to0 a while back, I am not opposed to a kid getting to taste something....

Man, they made us do this pledge reciting thing really young. I want to say 1st or 2nd grade., 3rd at the oldest. We didn't even really know what drugs were. I just remember bits of it. Mainly the principal holding back mountains of frustration. I never said the pledge though.

The we had D.A.R.E, teaching children what household products and school supplies can get them high since 1983 in 5th grade. I can't remember if I signed a pledge card then. I can't imagine that I did, but who knows. Actually I seem to remember only attending a couple of the classes, my parents might have pulled me out. I have a bad memory, and no...it's not from drugs. I never got a t-shirt, so I must not have gone through the whole thing. Or they gypped me.

 

[Glocktogo]

This is really just an indicator of how scared, uncertain and ignorant our country as a whole has become. People throw a big fit over something innocent or inconsequential because they see it as the tip of the iceberg about to sink them. Mom hears about saying the pledge in Spanish and sees unemployment, undocumented workers, uninsured motorists with 20 cubic feet of chrome on their old beater, unpaid medical bills, press 2 for english, signs printed in spanish and a whole slew of other stereotypes all dancing in her head. She can't hold back the tide, but by God she CAN keep her kid from reciting the pledge in spanish!

 

[urbanscout]

Ignorance on display. I swear to God, I believe that some folks here just revel in ther ignorance. They are arrogant about it. It's a Spanish class. They....are...learning...to...speak...Spanish. So, they are learning the Pledge of Allegiance. Would this woman be happier if they were learning Mexico Lindo?

What a big deal about nothing.

I agree! well said.

 

[de-evoproject]

This is America DANGIT!!! Speaking the language of Britian or don't talk at ALL!!!

Seriously, who cares. As long as he wasn't reciting a some communist pledge it shouldn't matter. In fact i think the reason that reciting the PoA in foreign language classes is used is because it really should be one of the least offensive or controversial things you could have them saying.

Stupid trashy people...

 

[bettingpython]

Snip!

She said students and parents were made aware of the assignment at the beginning of the school year, and added: “If a parent has an issue with an assignment and calls in advance of that assignment being given, then the student can be given an alternative assignment.”

Lyons said the Taggarts did not call the school to complain prior to the assignment, “so her son was given a zero for a test grade because he failed to complete the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.”

But after hearing Taggart's complaint, the school is bending a bit in this case. The boy's teacher, after giving him a zero, is now allowing him to complete another assignment to replace the Pledge.

Little Johnny didn't do his work, little johnny is now getting to translate something else for full credit.

I call BS smoke and mirrors on the whole thing, of course they probbaly voted republican and are proud of their stance on god, guns and bibles.

Language classes are one of the few places schools don't have strict tetsting guidleines that have to met where a child might learn critical thinking instead of just being a lemming.

My 11 year gets a dose of liberal BS from time time to time he also takes time to talk to me and my wife about things he hears and see's and I encourage him to analyze the facts from all sides and use his best judgement before deciding on what to believe or do.

Gonna blow his mind one of these days when we have to talk about drugs and the birds and bee's.

 

[JB Books]

GTG you are right, but also this is the result of ill concieved anti-illegal immigration laws like HB 1804. I know I'll get blasted for saying it, but it's the truth.

Let's hope Congress gets off their collective ass and fixes the problem once and for all.

 

[Michael Brown]

As long as the pledge is to Los Estados Unidos de America and not some other country, I don't care what language it's in.

Michael Brown

 

[redneck1861]

I guess I was just raised different, I agree with the mother, In Oklahoma it is a requirement that you take at least 1 year of a foreign language, it is not a option to not take one. If my son was required to say the POA in spanish, I would raise some hell myself. But that is just me. you probably wont find very many people that are more redneck than me

 

[dieseltech09]

I guess I was just raised different, I agree with the mother, In Oklahoma it is a requirement that you take at least 1 year of a foreign language, it is not a option to not take one. If my son was required to say the POA in spanish, I would raise some hell myself. But that is just me. you probably wont find very many people that are more redneck than me

I agree with you. I would raise all kind of hell. There are plenty of other things they can learn in spanish for a grade than the POA.