YouTube: Forced To Recite Mexican Pledge of Allegiance

Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas is  a city located about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.  Last month in an intermediate Spanish class students in this 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.

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 said she was particularly offended because the presentations in teacher Reyna Santos’s class took place during “Freedom Week,” the week after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and on U.S. Constitution Day — the same day as Mexico’s Independence Day.

“Why are we doing their independence when it‘s Freedom Week and it’s also Constitution Day?” Brinsdon said.

Brenda also caught it all on video:

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.

Students don't recite the American Pledge of Allegiance in schools.  Students don't sing America's National Anthem.  Students aren't forced to memorize them or recite them in class.  In fact students in many states can't be made to do either.  But this class has to do it for Mexico.

The public i.e. public schools are not educating our children.  They are not teaching any pride or patriotism of America.  They can't teach any Christian values in school. 

School rule needs to go back to the school districts.  Union control of schools needs to be eliminated.  We need the best teachers in classrooms not the ones that have been there the longest.

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