Via Fark, comes this nugget (emphasis added):
For many years now, Edgerton High School in Wisconsin has allowed students in its Spanish class to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish over the Intercom one day of the school year. It also invites foreign exchange students (the school now has three) to say it in their own language.
This year, when Spanish students recited the Pledge on March 11, it caused a ruckus.
Parents complained. They demanded that the Spanish teacher, the principal, and the superintendent be fired. And they intend to press the issue at the school board meeting on April 28.
The superintendent, Dr. Norman Fjelstad, has even been physically threatened.
By now I should probably be used to stories of people getting bent out of shape over what I consider to be trivial matters, but it still baffles me.
I’m not a parent, but if I was one, and I were to list concerns I had regarding my high school child, at the top of the list would be things such as grades, teacher performance, social interaction, drugs, sex, and things of that ilk. And somewhere near the bottom of the list would be the horror of having my precious snowflake exposed to a few seconds of Spanish over the school public address system one day a year.
And yet, according to this article, some parents think this warrants the school superintendent’s removal.
I think those parents would do themselves a favor by reviewing American history. Somehow, millions of immigrants who didn’t know English assimilated into this country. And we managed it without society collapsing.
If our flag was able to weather the storm of German, French, Italian, and more in earlier eras, I’d say it can withstand the test of Spanish class.
Wisconsin is an odd state. There’s a portion of the populace that’s very liberal and open minded. Then there’s a portion of absolute blithering idiots and knee-jerk conservanoids that rivals anything in our state.
People make a big deal out of nothing when nothing is all they have to make a big deal out of.