“It was my understanding it would be Spanish, French and German, and I think there’s 80, 90 different languages at this school and I thought that would be a cool thing,” she said.
Fairfax county Public Schools contends the program wasn’t canceled but rather designed to only last the two days before Thanksgiving as a means to “promote engagement and inclusion,” according to a prepared statement to WTTG.
“A school administrator suggested students lead the pledge in Spanish to promote engagement and inclusion,” the statement read. “Administrators believed this was an opportunity for other voices and languages to be heard and recognize the school diversity.”
My bold.
Now here is the horse manure. Have the kids read the pledge in 3 or 5 languages, enough to cover at least the euro spectrum. They learn word derivation, boneheads, and it is a great idea and you teachers should focus on teaching skills not diversity.
Reinstate the plan, reduce the number of languages, and tell the community this is about learning word stems, word derivations and the like. There is nothing offensive. The diversity here is language skills among little kiddies of different colors.
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