Posted on 10/20/2006 10:16:23 AM PDT by Mark Felton
Following an exclusive KTRH report on what really happened during a controversial elementary school assembly, one noted sociologist in Houston says there is nothing wrong with immersing kids in other cultures.
By Scott Braddock Thursday, October 19, 2006
The assembly at Velasco Elementary in the Brazosport Independent School District was meant to teach children about Mexican Independence Day, according to district officials. The holiday is celebrated Sept. 16 to mark the day Mexico won independence from Spain.
Sam Williams, the school's longtime principal, has said, in hindsight, he would have done things “differently.” He has also apologized to anyone who may have been offended.
Rice University sociology professor Dr. Stephen Klineberg tells KTRH News that parents upset over a pledge of allegiance to the flag of Mexico shouldn’t be so angry. He says that in a “global community,” children should have a good understanding of all cultures.
In Texas, "it seems entirely appropriate to raise the Mexican flag and hear the way Mexicans pledge allegiance to their flag comparable to how Americans pledge to our flag," Klineberg said. "It seems to me enormously important to help our young Anglo kids learn an appreciation for the various cultures with which they'll be dealing in this global economy in the 21st Century," he said.
One woman, who didn’t want to be identified because her daughter is enrolled at Velasco, told KTRH "handing the Mexican flags to everybody and then having them say the pledge of allegiance (to it) just completely crossed the line.”
That mother and several other parents have told KTRH News that some of the children, but not all, at the assembly said the Mexican pledge. The Brazosport ISD maintains the students did not recite the pledge.
Especially if your goal is to undermine Western civilization and destroy the Anglo-Protestant backbone of the US by brainwashing their children]
ANd the Supreme Court, given their penchant for international law, will see nothing wrong with this.
The American flag, on the other hand...
They are ignorant idiots. This is the de-Americanization of our country. Try this with an American flag in that rathole Mexico and see what happens to you.
When will we take back our schools from the a$$hole librocrats?
http://www.ktrh.com/pages/newsarchive.html?feed=134584&article=1488088
"Video Sheds Light on Mexican Pledge Controversy
After parents in Freeport expressed outrage over a Velasco Elementary School assembly last month, KTRH News has obtained a video that answers some questions about what really happened. [SEE VIDEO] and a volunteer reciting the pledge. [SEE VIDEO].
Several parents have told KTRH News that students were saying the pledge, while Brazosport Independent School District officials say that did not happen.
The assembly was meant to teach children about Mexican Independence Day, school district officials said. The holiday is celebrated Sept. 16 to mark the day Mexico won independence from Spain.
KTRH News obtained the video by requesting it from the Brazosport Independent School District under Texas open records laws.
The father of a third-grader at Velasco, who wished to remain anonymous, said Tuesday that some students surrounding him at the assembly were saying the pledge. “I was telling them you don't have to stand for the pledge of allegiance to the Mexican flag," he said. He noted that only some students — not all — were reciting the pledge.
"That's treason ... you're not supposed to say the pledge of allegiance to any flag other than the American and Texas flags," the father added. "It broke my heart to see the kids doing that.”
IT"S A FREAKIN' PLEDGE OF ALLEGIENCE,
That means that these kids are pledging their loyalty to MEXICO (even if most of them don't know what this means), and the Principle is in-effect making them say they turn their backs on AMERICA: THis is Outrageous!!
Children should have an understanding of other cultures, as long as they understand what it means to have allegience to their own.
-PJ
...and just like that Aztlan was created.
"Don't worry, this will become mandatory in all schools when the Dems take control of the House and Senate."
You're probably right, nothing will change.
Well I suggest that we conquer Mexico and make it the 51st state. Then we can have 50 stars plus a burrito on our flag. LOL
"He says that in a “global community,” children should have a good understanding of all cultures."
STFU, YOU FLAMING LIBERAL!
He needs a beat down. No more Mr. Nice Guy... These people WILL be the death of our Country.
A good understanding is one thing, pledging allegiance to their flag another.
OMG.....I simply can't take this crap any more.
Nice, I like the burrito touch !!!!
The great strength of "multiculturalism" is not that it's an argument against the West but that it short-circuits the possibility of argument. If there's no difference between English Common Law and native healing circles and Tamil Tiger fundraisers and gay marriage and sharia, then what's to discuss? Even to want to debate the merits is to find oneself on the wrong side--for, if the core belief of multiculturalism is that there's nothing to discuss and everything's equally nice and fluffy, then to favour honest argument puts you, by definition, on the extremist side.
Unite We Stand; Divided We Fall.
Who are the experts recommending this? Pancho Villa, Juarez, and Santa Anna?
I'm sure dividing and conquering is exactly the plan. The dividing is going on drip by drip. Death by a thousand cuts.
I think it's high time we started to fight this enemy within before they destroy another generation, by converting them to liberal wackos who can't read, write, or do math well enough to be successful. Time to teach our kids to be Americans not globalist wimps.
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