Good for Her, this crap has to stop! Texas student punished for refusing to recite Mexican pledge of allegiance

Now there is a Federal (er.. Ferderale) Lawsuit. Wasn't this field plowed years before as well?
It is especially nice to see Mexico given the National Socialist salute. m/r

Texas student punished for refusing to recite Mexican pledge of allegiance

Texas student Brenda Brinsdon, daughter of a Mexican mother and an American father, refused to recite the Mexican pledge as required by her teacher. For this she was disciplined. Her family is now suing the school. February 27, 2013

Just as the 2011 school year began, Brenda Brinsdon, then a 15 year-old sophomore at Achieve Early College High School (AECHS) in McAllen Texas, was thrust into the national spotlight after she refused to stand up, extend her arms straight out with palms down and recite the Mexican Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Mexican National Anthem.  Reyna Santos, the Spanish 3 teacher, required all her students to recite this allegiance to Mexico. 

When the time came for the students to stand up and recite the Mexican pledge, Brenda Brinsdon refused.   Brenda, born in the United States, is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and an American father.  Brenda is fluent in Spanish and English and is proud of her Mexican heritage, but she is a true blooded American.  So to Brenda, the words of the pledge have a deep meaning. Her conscience and patriotism would not allow her to participate in the assignment.  She believed it was ‘un-American’ and she was exercising her constitutional right not to be forced to pledge allegiance to Mexico.  The school punished her for her refusal.

As a result, the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Michigan, along with local Texas attorney Jerad Najvar, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Brenda and her father William Brinsdonclaiming that school officials violated Brenda’s  constitutional rights. Click here to read the federal lawsuit.

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