Pledge to Mexican flag featured at Texas school?
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Pledge to Mexican flag featured at Texas school?
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The principal of an elementary school instructed his students to stand during the recitation of a pledge to the Mexican flag during a diversity assembly recently, and he's been trying to backtrack ever since.
"We absolutely refuse to stand up and pledge allegiance to another country's flag," a mother whose daughter attends the school told talk show host Chris Baker on AM 740 KTRH radio. "Where is the sensitivity to the country and to the troops and the men and women that have fought and died for this country?"
The mother, identified only as Amy, said school officials gave all the children Mexican flags to wave and then asked everyone to stand up and pledge allegiance to the Mexican flag.
"Get out!" Baker shouted. "What school is that?"
It was Velasco Elementary in Clute, Texas, where Sam Williams is principal.
Stuart Dornburg is a spokesman for the Brazosport Independent School District which includes Velasco, and he said Sept. 15 through Oct. 15
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is a national Hispanic Heritage Month and the assembly was a cultural education activity in a district that values and respects diversity.
But Amy said she got "glares" when she didn't participate and when she "proudly" put the Mexican flag on the ground.
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Texas_at_its_best
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I wouldnt want my kids pledging to nothing but the American flag. |
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meathead
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Simple answer, One country one Flag ! Pledging allegiance to another countries flag has nothing to do with diversity. learning, and respecting about the culture is diversity , not honoring it. |
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eva b
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Pledging Allegiance to another country IS NOT sharing cultural diversity.It is an affront to those of us who have served and died for our country(THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)not Mexico.
It also teaches the children that to "pledge your allegiance" (a solemn act)means nothing. The principal should be fired |
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usaf.primebeef
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It just goes to show how much they DO NOT want to assimilate into our culture.
At any other time in history, say right after WWII, this would have been considered an invasion. |
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cyclops
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No, and no and Hell no. |
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TnMtnMan
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I guess next month will be Iranian Heritage month and they will all pledge to the Iranian rag? Whomever led that pledge should be fired immediately! |
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curiouser
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Eva B has said it beautifully...........I agree with her...enough of this PC ...let's get back to showing pride in our country, our flag , our troops and our people.
Let's stop apologizing and feeling guilty for being a great free prosperous nation. We weren't given this, our people , our troops earned this place through hard work, courage and a belief in the freedom for all people. |
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devildriver_667
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Any one that pledges allegiance to another countries flag is a traitor, plain and simple. I wonder how many people actually understand what "pledging their alliegence" to anything means.
If that was my childs classroom, I would have had that entire faculties heads on sticks,
GOD BLESS AMERICA! |
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princess_29_71
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This is truly appalling. Any real American would be outraged by this. Don't these people ever stop to think about the veterans who have died for this country?( under the STARS AND STRIPES, not the buzzard rag, which has no place here in America)
One nation, one flag. Period. I love Eva's answer.
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER |
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kimberly0627
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Screw that. Last time I checked Texas was part of the US. Why are we pledging to a another nations flag?? I bet the US soldier that have died for this country are rolling in their graves. |
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DAR
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Pledge allegience to a flag they feel no allegience to? Because the oaths the Principal takes have no meaning, apparently?
No, the Principal should go. |
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machiko_146
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This was totally insane. Diversity does not mean pledging allegiance to a foreign flag!!! Whatever happened to having diversity day and talking about the traditions of some hispanic countries, having snacks from that particular country, etc. It's diversity day not dual allegiance day! There is a difference. |
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sqwirl_hater
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I think the IDIOT who thought this crap up, should be FIRED immediately! We don't want our kids to pledge allegiance to ANY other country but this one! |
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bekkiboo31
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Yes, I'm very familiar with that - it happened in my town, but they have one thing wrong ---- it wasn't in Clute. It happened in Freeport - which is just a few miles away, in the same district. The people of Brazoria County are outraged over this, and NO, we should not pledge allegiance to any other flag. This is the United States of America - not Mexico. |
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yars232c
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can you say - Act of WAR? |
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Niña Boniita
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Are you the news reporter here? Cause almost evertything you post is what is on the news.... get a life or just ask questions like everyone else here! |
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Mr. Angry!
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NOT THE MEXICAN FLAG! IT SHOULD BE THE COLOMBIAN FLAG!!!!
VIVA LA COLOMBIA Y EL CARTEL!!!!! |
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Answ3r3r
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If they have 95% of students being Mexicans, it would make sense, I mean, in towns with a lot of expats working in American companies in Mexico, they do have American Flags and recite the pledge of allegiance, and nobody is making a big deal of it... |
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Namtrac
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Sounds like it was just an assembly, no big deal. I just wonder if she would have reacted so strongly if it had been Canada they were learning about.
No, I don't think American kids should pledge allegiance to another country, but the way I heard this story, they were just asked to stand while someone else said the pledge.
I think the mother is overreacting. |
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