“Texas High School Students Required to Recite Mexican Pledge”:
Students enrolled in an intermediate Spanish class at Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texax, a town located about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, were made to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance as part of a recent class assignment.
However, sophomore Brenda Brinsdon sat down, refused to participate and recorded it on video (below). “I just thought it was out of hand, I didn’t think it was right,” she told TheBlaze.com. “Reciting pledges to Mexico and being loyal to it has nothing to do with learning Spanish.”
If that’s the case, maybe it’s time to revisit that time my homework for German class was to find a gay Jewish gypsy and stuff him into a pizza oven.
this seems mostly like a bad judgment thing I think
public school employees aren’t always the brightest candle on the cake
Not if those students are Mexican. Andele! andele! arriba! arriba!
If the point is to learn Spanish in that class, then why couldn’t they just recite the American Pledge in Spanish for a day and call it good?
What would the reaction be in Mexico if an American teaching English there had students memorize the American pledge of allegiance? To ask the question is to answer it.
Good for Miss Brinsdon, I say.
We had this French teacher who used to like to start off his classes by blasting the Marseillaise over the gramaphone. You could hear it from three, four doors down.
Wow Jeff, that’s tough. I only had to learn Die Lorelei, myself.
Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten….
It seems apropos somehow.
Juro fidelidad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de America
y a la república que simboliza,
una nación bajo Dios,
indivisible con libertad y justicia para todos.
I taught Spanish for several years, including at Cornell, and we never incorporated anyone’s national anthem or pledge or whatnot into the lesson plan for the simple reason that there are ::counting:: twenty countries whose official language is Spanish.
We might have taught some simple folksongs or nursury rhymes, but there was nothing expressly political.
And why should there be, unless you’re in a history course for a particular country or region? And even then, there’s no reason for performing a pledge or anthem.
I can sing the Colombian national anthem, but that’s because I lived for awhile in a house with a parrot that sang it. I learned from the parrot! And besides, I was actually living in Colombia.
Of course, the teacher what did this thinks that Texas is actually Mexico, so…
the hermanator sings
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Listening to Buchanan on Hannity; I haven’t heard – seen so much use of the term ‘tribe’ since Nishi flaunted her two-digit wisdom around here.
Another takeaway: “there’s nothing left to hold us (Americans) together”.
En San Jacinto tuvo nuestra paga,
El precio que se establece la libertad;
Un “que se pagó ese mismo día,
Un ‘eran dos a uno de nosotros;
Pero nos fuimos en la venganza entonces.
Entre los muertos estaba Alamo lado de nosotros,
Un ‘le dio a cada hombre la fuerza o’ diez.
La batalla o plan?
“No puedo decir,
Mi cerebro, de alguna manera, se olvida del plan,
Sin embargo, las flores blancas de color rojo se dirigió a donde cayó
México salvaje cada espiando “,
La sangre de la deuda o ‘que pagamos en la sangre:
“Recuerde, los niños, el Alamo!”
Despidió a todos los tejanos, donde se puso de pie,
Un ‘nerved su brazo para golpe mortal.
Nos batida ’em, muchachos, un’ Liberty
Nació, ese mismo día, a través de un humo de incendios,
Este compañero es un viejo que me queda. ”
Encendió su pipa de arcilla mientras hablaba.
At San Jacinto took our pay,
The price we set was Liberty;
An’ it was paid that very day,
An’ they were two to one of us;
But we went in for vengeance then.
The Alamo dead stood side of us,
An’ gave each man the strength o’ ten.
The plan o’ battle?
“I can’t tell,
My brain, somehow, forgets the plan,
But white flowers turned to red where fell
Each sneakin’ savage Mexican,
The debt o’ blood we paid in blood:
‘Remember, boys, the Alamo!’
Fired every Texan where he stood,
An’ nerved his arm for deadly blow.
We whipped ’em, lads, an’ Liberty
Was born, that day, through fire an’ smoke,
This one old comrade’s left to me.”
He lit his clay pipe as he spoke.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Seems like a good poem to translate into Spanish.
guantanamera guajira guantanamera
guantanamera guajira guantanamera
yo soy un hombre sincero
de donde crece la palma
yo soy un hombre sincero
de donde crece de palma
llantes de morirme quiero
echar mis versos del alma
……………………
That’s all I remember from the song we had to sing in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL for 7th grade Spanish. I think it’s Cuban. I hope it wasn’t commie.
Buchanan forgets that the Irish were considered the death of the Republic when they showed up too. As were the Italians, Jews, Poles, etc., etc. The problem is immigrants back then did not have a government social welfare to abuse (the Dems would just give them a bucket of coal to vote for them back in the day) and they were expected to assimilate. Boss Tweed would be amazed (and possibly embrassed) by what we have become.
I learned a couple of Christmas carols in German class, but I doubt if there’s much of that going on in schools these days.
“Besa me culo, pendejo.”
– I think we should demand pizza as part of fair pay.
Este tierra es mi tierra
Esa tierra es su tierra
Usted permanece en su tierra
And I won’t shoot you
I hope it wasn’t commie.
Nah.
guantanamera = chick from Guantánamo
guajira= chick from Guajira region
yo soy un hombre sincero = I am a sincere man
de donde crece la palma = from where the palm tree grows
y antes de morirme quiero = and before I die I want to
echar mis versos del alma = sing the songs of my soul
Besa me culo, pendejo.
“Bésame el culo, pendejo,” you mean.
What type of sauce did you use on the gypsy?
hf?
The day I’m Mexican is the day I say their pledge. I’d instead do the right thing for make up my own words to it with a bunch of pendejo’s and tonta’s in there for the teacher and finish off with puta de tu madre and that weird soviet bloc salute the mexican’s do.
Depends on where your loyalties lie, I suppose.
Most of the Spaniards I know wouldn’t allow anything Mexican anywhere near a classroom.
The Blaze has this additional detail on the story:
I wonder if Ms. Santos is a devout believer in Aztlan and Reconquista.
We learned “O Tannenbaum” in my German class in high school, and performed it for some other language students, mostly girls studying French I think.
John Wayne wanted his tomestone to read Feo, Fuerte y Formal. He also loved Mexicans (his wives were all Mexican).
this is a post about mexico here is a song about mexico from our friends katrina and the waves
this was before autotune but I think she acquits herself nicely
I’m not so bothered by the singing of the anthem…but am HUGELY bothered by the pledge.
Yes, pledge. Sorry.
our mexican cleaning lady used to spray pledge like air freshener right before she left
it makes you go hey this house is clean the minute you walk in
if mom was home what she would do is fill the sinks up with fabuloso, which smells clean and yummy at the same time
she was a very smart lady
Besame,besame mucho
como si fuera ésta nochela última vez
Besame, besame mucho
que tengo miedo a perderte, perderte después
Quiero tenerte muy cerca
mirarme en tus ojos
verte junto a mi
Piensa que tal vez mañana
yo ya estaré lejos,
muy lejos de ti
Any chance they’d try learning the Lord’s Prayer en Espanol?
Thought not.
Nuestro Padre, quien es en el cielo…
How about a translation assignment:
I pledge allegiance to the fence,
On the United States of America border,
And to the illegals, for which it stands,
(I say) “On ladder or underground, in a vehicle,
No liberty, but justice for all!”
The guy at the Mexican restaurant I get lunch from sometimes called me “vato” the other day. My street cred has never been higher.
Padre nuestro, que estás en los cielos…
I much prefer the Yo Pecador with full chest beating. I made sure I learned that one.
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