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    American Student Punished for Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge

    A Texas high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against her school and her teachers after she was punished for refusing to salute and recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance.
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    The Thomas More Law Center filed the suit on behalf of Brenda Brinsdon alleging the McAllen Independent School District violated the 15-year-old girl’s constitutional rights when she was forced to recite the Mexican pledge and sing the Mexican national anthem.
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    Brinsdon, who is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and an American father, refused. She believed it was un-American to pledge a loyalty oath to another country.
    Ironically, the school district has a policy that prohibits a school from compelling students to recite the American Pledge of Allegiance.
    The district also has a written policy that excuses students from reciting text from the Declaration of Independence if the student “as determined by the district, has a conscientious objection to the recitation.”
    “There is a sad trend in public schools across our nation to undermine American patriotism,” said Richard Thompson president of the Thomas More Law Center. “But it’s encouraging to see students like Brenda stand up for America despite pressure from school officials.”
    The TMLC told Fox News the district ignored its own rules when Brinsdon refused to recite the pledge of a foreign country.
    What’s most troubling is the different treatment for someone wanting to opt out of reciting the American Pledge of Allegiance compared to someone as a matter of conscience wants to opt out of reciting the Mexican pledge,” spokesman Erin Mersino told Fox News.
    A spokesman for the McAllen Independent School District told Fox News they had not seen a copy of the lawsuit.
    The recitation of the Mexican pledge and the singing of the Mexican national anthem was part of a 2011 Spanish class assignment at Achieve Early College High School. The teacher, Reyna Santos, required all her students to participate in the lesson.
    When Brinsdon refused to back down – she was punished, the lawsuit alleges. She was given an alternative assignment on the Independence of Mexico. The teacher gave her a failing grade – and then required the student to sit in class over a period of several days to listen to other students recite the Mexican flag.
    The lawsuit states Brinsdon offered to recite the American pledge in Spanish but the teacher refused her request.
    “It’s astonishing that this Texas school would deny Brenda her right of conscience and free speech not to pledge allegiance to a foreign country,” said Thompson. “Too many Americans – including those of Mexican descent – have suffered and died protecting our nation.”
    And while she is fluent in Spanish and English and is proud of her Mexican heritage, Brinsdon is a “true-blooded American,” Mersino added.
    Mersino said it was especially troubling to watch video of students in the class standing up, extending their arms straight out, palms down and reciting the pledge of a foreign country.
    “It’s disturbing – it truly was troubling,” she said.
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    In my Book you can go the hell Good luck to this girl if that was my kid . you have a good fight on your hand
    stand your ground honey . & to all Mom & dad stand with your kids . the Mexican Pledge
    ( My ass) I will say the Pledge allegiance to Our country & not other country
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    Brinsdon, who is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and an American father, refused. She believed it was un-American to pledge a loyalty oath to another country.
    Ironically, the school district has a policy that prohibits a school from compelling students to recite the American Pledge of Allegiance.
    Now that's a child who deserves the highest praise! I am sick to death of Teachers over stepping their bounds. This teacher rates right up there with the teacher who made a child turn his MARINES T-shirt inside out.
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    Proof positive todays Liberal Arts degree is far different than the one most of us grew up with! I'm probably a lot older than many folks here, but if a teacher ever pulled this crap when I was in 6th grade my Dad would have been in that class room the very next day! AND he would have dragged the Principal in with him!

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    IM from the old school . My mom would do the same thing

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    It's another one of those "I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone" kind of situations.
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    No American child should be forced to recite anything in another language or pledging allegiance to any other nation. Any school system attempting to force kids to do so should have its public funding and licenses revoked immediately.

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    The teacher should be removed from the roster.

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    We have become a nation of immorality.. I for one voted in favor of our constitution.. you want to be president both parents must be citizens of USA!!

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    Texas Student Disciplined for Refusing to Recite Mexican National Anthem, Lawsuit Say

    By Ildefonso Ortiz
    Published March 08, 2013
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    MCALLEN, TEXAS – A Texas couple claims their daughter’s school district tried to force her to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite that country's pledge of allegiance against her will -- then punished her for standing her ground.

    When the teen refused to participate, arguing it was against her beliefs as an American, she was eventually thrown out of the class and then given a failing grade for that day’s assignment, the lawsuit says.

    William Brinsdon filed the lawsuit on behalf of his daughter, Brenda. The lawsuit was filed against the McAllen Independent School District as well as Yvette Cavazos, Brenda’s teacher, and Reyna Santos, the principal at Achieve Early College High School.

    McAllen is a Texas city of around 130,000 people less than 10 miles from the Mexican border in a region known as the Rio Grande Valley, the deepest part of the Lone Star State with a Mexican-American and immigrant majority population.

    According to the lawsuit, Brenda was a sophomore in 2011 when she was asked to recite the Mexican National Anthem during her Spanish class. Brenda, whose mother is Mexican, told Cavazos, her teacher, that it was un-American to pledge an oath to another country.

    Cavazos then told her to instead write an essay on the history of the Mexican revolution for the following day.

    Brenda, 15, claims in the lawsuit she failed the essay because of her refusal to recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance. Previously, her father said, she was an above-average student. Eventually, she was asked to drop out of the class, according to the lawsuit.

    McAllen ISD spokesman Mark May said the district’s legal counsel is reviewing the lawsuit.

    “Just to be clear, all students in our district recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America every morning of every school day,” May said.

    He said the class assignment was in no way designed to show patriotism to a foreign country, but was in fact a single cultural awareness assignment in an advanced Spanish-language class.

    The Brinsdon family at could not be reached for comment.

    This is not the first lawsuit involving how patriotism should be handled in the classroom. In June of last year, a teenager and her mother, Carolyn Raja, and the American Civil Liberties Union took on the Brownsville, Texas, school district after the student was forced to stand during the U.S. pledge of allegiance.

    In that case, Judge Mark Hornak ruled that students have a constitutional right to pass on reciting the pledge. Coincidentally, some states, such as Michigan, have passed laws requiring students to pledge allegiance to the flag each day.

    In the McAllen case, the school allows students to opt out of the pledge of allegiance. Whether the school retaliated against Brenda for opting out of the Mexican anthem is still unclear.

    Her father claimed in the lawsuit that Brenda was kicked out of the class and then given a failing grade. This was a violation of her constitutional right to free speech, according to the suit.

    “She spent the class hour in the school’s office, even though she requested to return to the classroom,” the Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Brinsdon, argued in the lawsuit. “Brenda was also given a failing grade on her report card, which was later corrected.”

    "While the initial intent of exposing students to the elements of a different culture was a noble and well intentioned one," said Francisco Martinez, an English teacher in McAllen.."The apparent retaliation seemed petty in nature."

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