Oklahoma parents upset that son's class assigned reciting Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish

[alp227]

Via News Hounds is a story relayed by Fox News linking to the Oklahoma TV station KFOR about a mother complaining that her 8th grade son's Spanish class wanted her son to recite the Pledge of Allegiance IN SPANISH!

6:50 PM CDT, October 28, 2010
EDMOND, OK -- Melissa Taggart is now taking her fight to Edmond Public Schools after her son was threatened with a zero because he wouldn't complete in assignment at Sequoyah Middle School 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 to my child doing it," said Taggart.

According to Melissa, she enjoys the Spanish language and is excited that her son is learning the language in a Spanish class, but the Pledge, in her opinion, should be off limits.

In other words, the Pledge of Allegiance to Americans is just as sacred as Muhammad to Muslims...don't ever mess with the Pledge, whether dropping "under God" or daring express it in a foreign language! Just like you never dare draw any depiction of the prophet Muhammad. (If this Mrs. Taggart also whines about over-sensitive PC Muslims who raise outrage over Muhammad cartoons...well...)

News Hounds' comments:

Now that the election is over, Fox "News," basking in the glow of a Republican victory, must be thinking that folks are bored with kicking the Democrats around and need a new scapegoat. So what better way to keep hate alive than to resurrect an old scapegoat and engage in some good old "American" Hispanic baiting. Funny, when Rupert Murdoch was challenged by Democratic Representative Maxine Waters about his network's treatment of immigrants, he said that "we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line." But here we have, as a secondary lede on today's Fox website, "I Pledge Allegiance, But In Spanish?" One suspects that this headline was sure to get those patriotic, real "American," nativist juices flowing.

Conservatives sure do love misrepresenting multiculturalism as anti-American/anti-Christian, don't they?

[brewens]

1. I will never say "Under God" when I recite the pledge.

If asked to lead the pledge I will warn them that I will only recite the original/traditional version. The one we had in the period that we won two world wars! If it was good enough for those generations, it's good enough for me.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. What is the original version?

[Posteritatis]

7. Same thing without "under god" (and maybe "indivisible," I don't recall). (nt)

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

12. But there are TWO previous versions.

You stated, "... I will warn them that I will only recite the original/traditional version." Interestinly enough, there are two prior versions of The Pledge of Allegience. Francis Bellamy's 1892 pledge, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." This would be "The Original/Traditional" version which you clearly claim to favor.

However, you then continued on to say, "...The one we had in the period that we won two world wars! If it was good enough for those generations, it's good enough for me." This is confusing because Bellamy's original pledge was updated in 1924, a date which falls between WWI and WWII. Therefore, there was not "one we had in the period that we won two world wars". There were TWO!! The Pledge of Allegiance that America recited during WWII was, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

It wasn't until 1954 that the phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Interesting tidbit: Francis Bellamy was a socialist, cousin of the socialist-utopian novelist Edward Bellamy

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Here

http://tinyurl.com/3yarshv

[Angry Dragon]

13. It is my understanding that the original correct way to say

the pledge was also with the right hand raised at a 45 degree angle
until the Nazi used it in WWII
perhaps we should also go back to that as long as it
seems we are heading that way anyway

[RZM]

2. Making the whole school recite it in Spanish on Monday morning would be a story

But as part of an assignment in an actual Spanish class? Who the hell cares? I'm guessing hardly anybody besides these two . . . LOL, ok, maybe also the kids who don't want to do the work.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. under an american god, with poverty and justice as we

see fit.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Come to my classroom...

....and hear it recited in Latin.

They can make me do it, but they can't tell me how to do it.

[Vinca]

5. Heaven forbid the kid should learn something.

[hayu_lol]

8. Coming soon to an Oklahoma school near you...

since schools are government run, all foreign language textbooks will be in English only.

[Ginto]

11. You bring up a very good point. Schools need to be federally run with matching curricula.

These state schools with their insane rules are ludicrous. Classes need to be uniform in what they learn.

[texastoast]

10. Welcome to America