SkullandChains Report This Comment Date: November 02, 2010 11:09PM
EDMOND, OK (NBC) - An Oklahoma mother is fuming over a mandatory assignment
given to her son.
Melissa Taggart is now taking her fight to Edmond, OK Public Schools after her
son was threatened with a zero because he wouldn't complete an assignment that
would require him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.
"My husband and I are appalled by it. We don't believe in it and I do not
want my child doing it," Taggart said. "I just feel that it's wrong,
that he'll have to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America
in Spanish. That's not how it should be taught. That has nothing to do with the
Spanish language."
Officials with Edmond Public Schools said that Melissa's son was going to
receive a zero for the project. A few hours later, they changed their minds and
are now offering him another assignment.
"There are poems, lyrics, and great writers that she could have chosen that
emphasize the Spanish culture ... Why the Pledge of Allegiance," Taggart
asked.
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Wolfgang613 Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 12:09AM
I wonder if this was a Spanish language class. If so the parents are off base
here. If not then the teacher is pushing his or her luck.
furdy Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 08:14AM
That's the whole scam in this country is, we don't have an official language.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 10:59AM
I thought the Pledge was stopped being recited in schools anyway. If so then
there should be outrage if it is being done in Spanish regardless of which class
it is being done in anyway. If it is not allowed in English it should not be
allowed in Spanish.
SkullandChains Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 02:20PM
I remember saying the pledge up 'til 6th grade. It stopped after entering
junior high.
Monster1 Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 03:57PM
What scares me is what comes next?...
"RECITE THE PLEDGE IN ARABIC"
(You bunch of scum infidels...)
ORLANDO399 Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 06:35PM
Yeah i agree monster what's next "The ghetto version"?
Vik Report This Comment Date: November 03, 2010 09:22PM
....and to the
Republic, for which it stands....
jgoins Report This Comment Date: November 04, 2010 07:00PM
Political correctness gone very wrong.
