One student in a Texas high school is taking legal action after she said she was reprimanded for not participating in a class recitation of the Mexican pledge of allegiance and national anthem.
Fifteen-year-old Brenda Brindson’s suit, filed by the Thomas More Law Center, contends that administrators violated her constitutional rights by forcing her to salute a foreign nation’s flag.
While the same school district has a written policy against coercing students to recite either the American pledge of allegiance or the U.S. Declaration of Independence, somehow verbally expressing loyalty to another nation is compulsory.
Richard Thompson, president of the TMLC, said this incident is indicative of “a sad trend in public schools across our nation to undermine American patriotism,” though he said he finds it “encouraging to see students like Brenda stand up for America despite pressure from school officials.”
Such pressure reportedly included Brindson’s teacher issuing her a failing grade on the assignment and forcing her to listen to a wave of schoolmates pledge allegiance to Mexico.
According to her lawsuit, Brindson even tried to compromise with her teacher, requesting to instead salute the American flag and recite its pledge in Spanish.
The student, fluent in Spanish and the daughter of a Mexican immigrant, is a proud American and contends that pledging loyalty to any other nation is unacceptable.
She gets no argument from me.
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Past time for a revolution, Texas! Remember the Alamo!!!
What the FLUCK is going on in Texas? Seems we know WHY they want to recede from America. To become part of mexico and cater to muslims!
Time to hear from those in Texas. Are you FOR this?
We in Texas despise the events of saluting and saying pledge of allegiance to Mexico. If these sorry so and SOS want to do that then they need to be deported or SHOT..To Hell with these Meskin assholes.
I'm with you there brother.
I feel sorry for Betsy
I was thinking about her reading this. I know she's livid!
Taht teacher needs to be deported if they want to pledge Allegiance to Mexico, and not to America!!
Oh no. See, it's okay to betray America these days. The president is doing it, after all. It should be perfectly fine.
Riiiiight.
I guess those settlers in Texas were fighting against the Mexican army for no reason, then. This school wants their students to forget the Alamo. Heck, they're probably teaching revisionist history. Guess what, history is not a movie you can remake or revise. I hope this girl wins her case. I hope it hurts the school badly to the point that they have to limp along just trying to remain open.
I can't believe the crap coming from Texas ,where is Gov Perry he knows how to go to Cal.to lure businesses to to move to Texas why so they can become Mexicans.If I lived in Texas this teacher and school district would be in moving to Mexico after the trouble I caused.Screw those Latinoes who want to have the Mexican pledge said and not the pledge of allegiance.Time to hit the road back to Mexico you were defeated and payed for Texas.Adios mother thumpers
Isn't Texas a state in the United States of America? I sure thought it was, this type of persecution is getting out of hand.
WTF is going on in this country anyway! Where is the punishment phase for these obviously willful acts of TREASON. From the top on down, remove and banish these people from America.