I wonder if schoolchildren in Mexico recite or listen to the American pledge in school. I don't think so.

 

 

We are accustomed to reading of outrageous behavior on the part of teachers in the government schools in this country. Often protected by tenure and assured of a healthy retirement income, they have a captive audience. But this news from Texas is particularly jarring.

 

Parents Outraged Over Mexican Pledge in Texas School

 

Some parents in Freeport were livid after they said a Velasco Elementary School assembly last week included a requirement that children say the pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag.

 

One mother, who has a daughter enrolled at the school, told KTRH News she couldn’t believe a school assembly would include children holding small Mexican flags and reciting a pledge in Spanish. “Where is the sensitivity to the men and women who have fought and died for this country?” the mother asked.

 

Several parents have complained to the Brazosport Independent School District administration, school officials confirmed, but claims that students were required to recite a pledge to the Mexican flag were simply false, a school spokesman said.

 

Brazosport District Spokesman Stuart Dornburg said, “A group of parents, who are volunteers, did get up on stage and recite the pledge to the Mexican flag … the students did not recite the pledge.”

 

The level of cluelessness displayed by the school authorities is simply astounding. Or perhaps it is not cluelessness at all. The careful use of “volunteers” and other aspects of deniability structured into the exercise suggests a plan to get away with instilling the message of loyalty to another nation.

 

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good work

Yeah, I don't like this. Even if there is a large Mexican population, it is still inappropriate to do something like that.

Yeah' date=' I don't like this. Even if there is a large Mexican population, it is still inappropriate to do something like that.[/quote']

 

I agree

 

Now its time to sit back and wait for cam to call me a racist for this.:laugh3:

I heard about this yesterday on the radio.

 

North American Union baby......this isn't good.

 

Another step in the wrong direction..

I dont think this is any worse than what happened to me as a foreign student at an American public high school. I lived in Ohio during high school and was forced to learn and recite the pledge of allegiance. Even though i am NOT and American citizen.

I heard about this yesterday on the radio.

 

North American Union baby......this isn't good.

 

Another step in the wrong direction..

 

You're right on the money.

I dont think this is any worse than what happened to me as a foreign student at an American public high school. I lived in Ohio during high school and was forced to learn and recite the pledge of allegiance. Even though i am NOT and American citizen.

 

First of all your in AN AMERICAN school that is why. Its worse when a nation is saying the pledge to anohter nation, not when someone is in a different nation attending school being forced to do custom of that nation

well, the school did not force or make anyone recite it. Volunteers recited it if they wanted to. I think it is worse to force someone to pledge alleigence to a nation not his own, no matter where the school is.

No its not if you go to that country. Its not worse if i go to France and they make me at school there, its their damn nation. But its a whole new story to pledge to another nation in a another nation. If you go to school in another nation dont be mad or upset when they ask you to pledge in the school.

id be pissed as shit if i did that, i would never say that pledge of alleigance. I would have stood up and walked out of school if they made me do that.

 

rediculous:angry:

in mexico you dont have the obligation to recite the mexican pledge if you are from somewhere else, you just have to show respect when the other people are doing it.

hmm, i never heard of that and the brazos ISD isn't too far from here..weird. it's mandatory in texas to do the american and texas pledge (whatever the fuck that is), but...the mexican pledge?! these kids are only in elementary, give them a break with all the peldges and what not.

 

and oh....we live in AMERICA ,not Mexico. my parents are from Bangladesh, but you don't see me saynig the frickin' Bengali pledge. have some national pride FFS

oh....we live in AMERICA ,not Mexico.

 

do you see the map?

 

 

 

mexico is also america ;)

oh crap, i meant the USA. i've been rambling on about the US preamble all day, and i make that huge mistake, sorry!

Hey, if certain people have their way and if nobody does anything about it that big huge green North America will become the US, the North American Union.

nah. the people of the USA wouldn't dare let that happen, ever. no one wants to integrate all of America into one huge country. and we mean NO ONE-not mexicans, americans, or canadians.

Well, it's already underway and it's all been signed up to by all three countries.

 

Where you asked if you wanted it? No.....and neither was anybody else.

I think country pledges, anthems, flags are what keeps everyone divided.

 

The school didn't have any right to make kids pledge (and that issues has not been resolved in this case). In fact, schools should never have the right to make anyone pledge to any flag regardless of what nation they are in and if its a nation to nation's flag.

That should always be left as a personal choice.

 

Because I could never pledge to a flag/country that has shown injustices. And plainly, if you don't feel "national pride" then don't stand up with a hand over a heart and pledge yourself to a piece of cloth that you don't support.

HellZ no!

yeah... this whole "texas pledge" thing is crap. complete and utter crap. i don't know who thought texas was that damn important but geez...a friggin pledge to it is too much. i dont say it cuz it's just plain useless.

I think country pledges, anthems, flags are what keeps everyone divided.

 

The school didn't have any right to make kids pledge (and that issues has not been resolved in this case). In fact, schools should never have the right to make anyone pledge to any flag regardless of what nation they are in and if its a nation to nation's flag.

That should always be left as a personal choice.

 

Because I could never pledge to a flag/country that has shown injustices. And plainly, if you don't feel "national pride" then don't stand up with a hand over a heart and pledge yourself to a piece of cloth that you don't support.

HellZ no!

 

I agree.

No its not if you go to that country. Its not worse if i go to France and they make me at school there' date=' its their damn nation. But its a whole new story to pledge to another nation in a another nation. [b']If you go to school in another nation dont be mad or upset when they ask you to pledge in the school.

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False!

 

I think it was in bad taste for the Mexican pledge to be said.. agreed. But you can't make anyone recite a pledge to a nation in which they don't belong to..... You shouldn't be expected to pledge alligence... even if you are just visiting or going to a foreign school... to this I totally disagree. Its true.. reciting the pledge is completely voluntary. You can't expect non-citizens to pledge alligence to a flag for which stands for nothing to them if they are just visiting or do not belong to....... right?

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False!

 

I think it was in bad taste for the Mexican pledge to be said.. agreed. But you can't make anyone recite a pledge to a nation in which they don't belong to..... You shouldn't be expected to pledge alligence... even if you are just visiting or going to a foreign school... to this I totally disagree. Its true.. reciting the pledge is completely voluntary. You can't expect non-citizens to pledge alligence to a flag for which stands for nothing to them if they are just visiting or do not belong to....... right?

 

Right. Im surprised you didnt try to play the racist card.:laugh3:

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False!

 

I think it was in bad taste for the Mexican pledge to be said.. agreed. But you can't make anyone recite a pledge to a nation in which they don't belong to..... You shouldn't be expected to pledge alligence... even if you are just visiting or going to a foreign school... to this I totally disagree. Its true.. reciting the pledge is completely voluntary. You can't expect non-citizens to pledge alligence to a flag for which stands for nothing to them if they are just visiting or do not belong to....... right?

 

 

Indeed.

 

And here in most parts of the US... in schools, you don't have to actually pledge. But you do/or should stand without hand over heart just as a sign of "respect"

 

But there are uber patriotic teachers that try and MAKE students stand AND pledge.

When they have perfectly good reasons not to pledge and also perfectly good US rights to not have to.

 

But parents can always protest the need of their child doing the pledge.

 

But I am sure we have encountered teacher who try to place their patriotism and beliefs on students with threats...wrong! And they support a free country! MY ASS!

I stand for the pledge and i recite the words (omitting under god) and i feel like i am patriotic enough without causing a fuss. Nobody really makes a big deal out of it here in NC