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Originally posted by FlyersFan
I suggest you read the thread.
The fluently speaking spanish student wasn't required to 'recite some spanish'. She was required to make the Mexican Pledge. And instead of being allowed to opt out of it, like all students are allowed to opt out of the American pledge, she was given a bad treatment and a failing grade by her teacher of hispanic heritage.
Originally posted by acmpnsfal
The student should have just recited the pledge.
Now she failed her alternative assignment and wants to sue the school district?
Shes just being a brat.
Its normal to learn about other countries and traditions when taking another language.
I'm with the teacher and this girl is an idiot.
Originally posted by blupblup
just reciting some Spanish...
you should do every task, even if that means Pledging to something in order to learn a language.
your usual nationalistic crap aside,
this is just a person refusing to speak Spanish in a class, that's all it is.
Originally posted by conspiracy nut
if it turns out the teacher was a full blown member of la raza indoctrinating her students to take mcallen back in the name of mexico well then i'll be a monkeys uncle.
Originally posted by tadaman
reply to post by blupblup
so if it was a theology class and your children were forced to recite a prayer from the Koran which dedicated their souls to Allah, would you object if they were uncomfortable doing so?
You would force them to?
What if a grammar teacher made them practice their linguistic skills describing ways to hurt their parents using unique and uncommon words, would you force them to?
Just words huh.....edit on 1-3-2013 by tadaman because: (no reason given)
Students stood with right arms straight out and palms down, which is how the school district says Mexicans say their pledge.
Calling the lesson "un-American," Brinsdon recorded the class, which occurred the week of Mexico's Independence Day and also the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
The teacher also told students to memorize and recite the the pledge individually. And when the time came for the part of the assignment to sing Mexico's national anthem, Brinsdon again refused.
Nowhere does this pledge ask for people's souls so your question is just stupid.
Originally posted by blupblup
Well obviously both of your examples are just stupid but anyway...
Originally posted by blupblup
Oh yes... sorry, I forgot.
It's the government.... I always forget about the evil government who are out to get us and kill us and brainwash us and take away our freedoms and so on.
Silly me.
This teacher was probably a plant by the government, sent to turn children Mexican and thus dilute their Amercan-ness and make them easier to enslave when their plans are enacted for total domination.
They are just readying the FEMA camps and death trains and still tweaking the vaccines to mind-control everyone, and then they will roll out their "Final Solution"
The Mexican Pledge Solution" Dun dun duuuun!!!
There will be a teacher in every School ready to pervert your child's mind and coerce them to the dark side of North America... by getting them all reciting the Mexican Pledge... which actually has a secret code, not dissimilar to the bible code, about the NWO and Illuminati and about how the population control will be completed by 2020 through Tacos and Burritos and similar snacks!!
ZOMG!!!
Originally posted by luciddream
Can't stop laughing!!!! couple of co-workers just told me to keep quite lol....