Fury after public school recites the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic.
In an effort to celebrate national ‘Foreign Language Week’ a school in Pine Bush, NY thought reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic was good idea.
As soon as the Arabic words began echoing in the classrooms students responded with catcalls and anger. Outraged students protested saying ‘this is America, speak English,’ many sat down, and others left the room.
FoxNews reported:
Students at Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, New York, knew right away there was something not quite right about the Pledge of Allegiance. That’s because the pledge was being recited in Arabic.
“One nation under Allah,” the student body president announced over the intercom system on Wednesday.
Reaction in the upstate New York high school was swift, and so was the backlash, The Times Herald-Record reports. Furious students tried to shout down the recitation in their classrooms. Other students sat down in protest.
School Superintendent Joan Carbone told the newspaper that the Arabic pledge “divided the school in half” – noting that many complaints came from Jewish parents and those who had lost family members fighting the war on terror.
The outrage among students was so significant that the school issued an apology.
“We sincerely apologize for having the Pledge of Allegiance recited this morning in the high school in a language other than English,” the apology read. “In our school district the Pledge of Allegiance will only be recited in English as recommended by the Commissioner of Education.”
Well, that’s somewhat reassuring.
However, state regulations do not mandate that the pledge be recited in a specific language. It recommends only specific wording.
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What a crock of shit! Why should that American school be celebrating any kind of foreign language, or speaking it?? Cowing down to the islamic devils again!Bring back the America that I loved and grew up with!!! Speak English! Spell English! Speak all of our American pledges in our language not foreigners!!