Such is the perversity of this story that I'm not entirely sure for what the principal is apologizing - reciting the Pledge or doing so as if he was in a Mosul classroom:
An effort to celebrate national Foreign Language Week by reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic Wednesday has polarized Pine Bush High School into angry factions.
The morning’s regularly scheduled announcements included the Arabic reading of the Pledge. According to students, the announcement was greeted by catcalls and angry denunciations in classrooms throughout the school by students who felt the reading was inappropriate.
The reading became the subject of angry talk throughout the school and a cascade of tweets both from students who criticized the reading and those who supported it.
The controversy has “divided the school in half,” according to school Superintendent Joan Carbone. She described the reading as “something that was supposed to be good but turned out not to be.”
Early Wednesday afternoon, high school Principal Aaron Hopmayer made a building-wide announcement explaining the reading’s context and apologizing to students who took offense.
Carbone said she has learned that state Education Department regulations specifically say the Pledge of Allegiance should be read in English.
Let me first say that I am heartened - if I'm reading this correctly - that so many young people were offended by the Pledge being recited in the language of our near-future conquerors. If there had been a recording of a jetliner smashing into a skyscraper in the background, it might have brought the house down.
Secondly, I have no doubt whatsoever that dividing the student body was one of the core objectives of this misbegotten exercise. Now the dhimmi educrats have flushed all of this "Islamophobia" out into the open and they can get started on their forcible Sharia indoctrination in earnest.
Lastly, please understand that I have no particular problem with the Pledge of Allegiance being recited in a foreign tongue, provided the student body can understand it. Hearing the Pledge in Klingon would probably send thrills up Sheldon Cooper's leg. But of all the dozens of languages spoken on this planet, was it really necessary to do so in Arabic? Or was the idea to make kids think it was being recited in Klingon?
And to Andrew Zink, president of the student assembly and senior class president, who said that this was the "right thing to do," I have one question: Why?
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