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Teen Protests After Pledge Recited In Foreign Languages
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Mar 10, 2005 10:09am |
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| Category | Idiocy |
| News Date | Thursday, March 10, 2005 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A ninth-grader is protesting the broadcasting of the Pledge of Allegiance in foreign languages as part of National Foreign Language Week.
"This is America, and we got soldiers at war," said 15-year-old Patrick Linton. "When you're saying the Pledge in a different language which nobody understands, that's not OK."
Linton was absent from school on Monday. At the end of his class Tuesday, the announcements came over the loudspeaker as usual, he said. But the Pledge was recited in another language - French, he later found out.
"I looked around, and I was like, 'What's going on?"' Patrick said. "We're at war right now, and our schools are supposed to be patriotic," he said. |
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