Outrage as high school recites Pledge in Arabic saying 'One Nation Under Allah'?????

What the heck is going on in Fort Collins?

Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic - replacing 'one nation under God' with 'one nation under Allah'.
Following Monday's pledge, Principal Tom Lopez has been inundated with complaints from outraged parents concerned that saying the Pledge in any language other than English is unpatriotic.

Standing by his controversial decision, Principal Lopez has said that despite the irate telephone calls and emails, he is not in any way or form trying to push an Islamic agenda at the Fort Collins school.

Rocky Mountain High School in Colorado was hit by controversy on Monday when a student group recited the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic

'These students love this country,' said Lopez to Fox News.

'They were not being un-American in trying to do this. They believed they were accentuating the meaning of the words as spoken regularly in English.'

At the school, the Pledge of Allegiance is recited once a week and on Monday, a member of the Cultural Arms Club at Rocky Mountain High School read out an Arabic version.

The pupils sought the permission of Principal Lopez, who previously had allowed the Pledge to be read out in French and Spanish.

However, the backlash began from students hours after the recital and has continued through the week as angry parents have waded into the controversy.

'We understand not everybody would agree with the students’ choice,' said Danielle Clark, communications director of the Poudre School District to Fox News.

Pictured are members of the Cultural Arms Club at Rocky Mountain High School

'We’ve heard there are some who are upset.'

Clark said though, that the club has a history of reading the Pledge in different languages and some parents have emailed to say it 'was a great thing'.

And she added that the students had asked permission from the principal.

'We deferred to the students because it’s their deal,' she said to Fox News.

Students at the school rushed to the classmates defense, keen to highlight the motto of the Cultural Arms Club which seeks to 'destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures.'

'No matter what language it’s said in, pledging your allegiance to the United States is the same in every language,' student Skyler Bowden told The Coloradoan.

The issue for some parents and pupils at the school is that in an Arabic translation of the Pledge of Allegiance, 'one nation under God' is replaced with 'one nation under Allah'.

Rocky Mountain High School Principal Tony Lopez has been stunned by the level of vitriol directed at him and the students for the Arabic pledge

'Obviously in Arabic, you would use the word Allah, but Christian Arabs would use the word Allah,' said Ibrahim Hooper, of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

'It’s not necessarily specific to Islam and Muslims.'

Principal Lopez has borne the brunt of the criticism of the decision to allow the recital - and some have gone as far as to label him as a traitor.

'They claim they are outraged that this is blaspheming a real major tenet of our patriotism – which in their mind the Pledge of Allegiance is only in English,' said Lopez.

Other parents have accused him of 'pushing a Muslim Brotherhood agenda - to push Islam into the school.'

Solemn Duty: Young students recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a school in America

'How on earth is it un-American to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in another language,' said Hooper to Fox News.
'It doesn’t make sense unless the people complaining are anti-Muslim or anti-middle eastern bigots.'

Indeed, the embattled head is becoming wary at the number of complaints and level of abuse he has received.
'I’ve been shocked with prejudicial statements that have been made,' said Lopez.

'I’ve been shocked with the lack of seeking understanding. There’s definitely suspicion and fear expressed in these people’s minds. There’s some hate.'

Lopez says the school is a place of inclusion where one message can be communicated in many different ways.

'When they pledge allegiance to United States, that's exactly what they're saying,' Lopez said. 'They're just using another language as their vehicle,' he said.

h/t to Victoria Baer

And this is not the first time this has happened:  Jan 2013: Fort Collins students read Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic

Write this principal and the district with your outrage!!!!   We MUST stand for America and our rights and against this outrageous trashing of what we hold dear!

Multiculturalism on Way Out…

Political Correctness

We definitely should call and/or write this principal and ask questions like… what the heck is going on in Ft. Collins?  But, perhaps the bigger question is:  What the heck is going on in Washington, D.C.?

Michelle Obama Visiting Saudi National in the Hospital After Boston Bombing Right Before Allowing Him to Leave County

Michelle Obama visited the Saudi National “Person of Interest” in the hospital as  the POTUS met with the Saudis and the Syrians… wanting to deport him as soon as possible. Why? He is related to Osama Bin Laden and was involved in the Boston Bombing! Huge News is coming. Sounds like one of those conspiracy theories? See: HAMZA IS KNOWN AS THE “CROWN PRINCE OF TERROR.

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Glenn Beck: “After what I have learned this week I’m a changed person.”

Saudi News Site: Michelle Obama Visited Saudi National in Hospital on Thursday 

REPORT: Saudi Student -- 'Person of Interest' in Boston Bombings -- To Be Deported...

Obama meets with Saudi foreign minister; not on public schedule...

The address of the Ft. Collins school is: 

Rocky Mountain High School

1300 W. Swallow Road, Ft. Collins, CO. 80526 

Poudre School District 2407
LaPorte Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80521
info@psdschools. org rmhs@psdschools.org rmhs@psdschools.org rmhs@psdschools.org

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One Nation Under God… Are We? Asks Beck

You may have heard that NBC omitted “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance during the U.S. Open Golf Tournament over the weekend. And because of that, it’s time to ask ourselves this question: Are we still one nation under God, Indivisible… with Liberty and Justice for all?

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If we do not find our way back to God and back to trusting each other quickly… violence will be next.  It is part of the globalist plan… Obama’s plan.  We are already seeing outbreaks of violence everywhere.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust, vault for seeds in Norway near the arctic circle.  It was set up to protect crop diversity.  The vault can hold 4.5 million seeds, a Noah’s Arc for seeds. Yet we are down from 1,500 to 11 types of apples. Also the bees are dying out. What is the purpose of this vault and group?  It is to restart things in case of a catastrophic event.  We also used to have a vault to re-start our society… but is keeping the documents enough?

Go to www.GlennBeck.com for homework this summer…

Read history

Find someone you admire

Try to emulate them

And then stop trying so hard.  Stop trying of convince people who will never get it.  Start becoming more pro-active in your community.  Start a community group with useable skills.  We need to become self-sufficient and link arms.

Are you prepared?… Start a garden, can some food, store some food and water, put some silver or gold aside, put some guns and ammo aside and start reading your Bible and American history… so we will have a basis for freedom to start over with.

Just 8-more shows for Glenn on Fox now and if you can… join Beck in Israel this August.

Preschools Are Using a Marxist's Theories to Manufacture Collectivists

The room buzzes with little voices. Little children engage in "mature, dramatic play." An adult helps the children "regulate" and "monitor each other's compliance" with "rules and assigned roles."[1] Each child knows his or her place. Each child does the group's bidding, nothing else.

Orwell's 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)? No, a scene played out in thousands of classrooms across America. The drumbeat of collectivism begins in preschool. And a long-dead Soviet psychologist helped define that drumbeat.

Months ago, an email from a teacher spurred me to investigate the theories of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). My research revealed starry-eyed academics enamored of collectivism.

Vygotsky contended that "creative play" could provide relief to children dealing with "tension" caused by unsatisfied desires.[2] The psychologist expounded on Soviet activity theory, an offshoot of "cultural-historical theory."[3] Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist whom I've discussed in previous articles, also drew on cultural-historical theory. Gramsci's "cultural Marxism" called for the intentional erosion of Western society. Since the 1980s, early childhood education has increasingly incorporated Vygotskyian techniques that answer Gramsci's call.

Embracing Vygotsky's cultural-historical approach, University of New Mexico psychology professor Vera John-Steiner and Santa Fe's Little Earth School director Ellen Souberman marvel at the Russian's fixation on "the Marxian concept of a historically-determined human psychology."[4] Progressives drool over such concepts, for instance demanding "social justice" for historically oppressed minorities.

The obsession with social versus equal justice parallels a learning theory called constructivism. A devotee to the theory, Vygotsky viewed knowledge as each person's individual "construct." The notion, contemptuous of reality, led the man to conceive methods that trap children in progressivism's central struggle: the rejection of said reality. Preschools, which use Vygotsky's creative play to relieve the tension between pretend and real worlds, implant fairy-tale realities in children. The progressive K-12 system then supercharges the Pollyannaish programming.
A self-described Marxist thinker,[5] Vygotsky maintained, "[In] play it is as though [a child] were a head taller than himself."[6] The psychologist upended the idea that "play is imagination in action," insisting that imagination constitutes "play without action."[7] Children subjected to methods arising from such thinking believe as adult progressives believe, that anything imaginable must be possible. Progressive preschools embrace Vygotsky's nonsense and breed dreamers who equate wishful thinking to feasible outcomes. Stop global warming. Erase inequality. Establish a new world order, one classroom at a time.

As one researcher notes, Vygotsky theorized that by changing "the tools of thinking available to a child, his mind will have a radically different structure."[8] At Metropolitan State College of Denver, the "Tools of the Mind" organization develops Vygotskyian curricula and trains teachers to wire radically different thinking into the brains of children in 18,000 preschool and kindergarten classrooms throughout America. And the number is growing.

What constitutes "radically different" thinking? To answer, we examine Vygotsky's motivation.

Two prominent psychologists find that Lev Vygotsky's "Marxist orientation" determined "his scientific preoccupations," in other words, his education theories.[9] Revealingly, nine years after Vladimir Lenin violently seized power and fathered the USSR, Vygotsky lauded "the cleansing threat of social revolution." Furthermore, Vygotsky cheered the crumbling of "the very foundations of bourgeois morality," insisted that the achievement mentality "be swept clear out of our schools," and anointed educators with the job of instilling a new morality. To Soviet Vygotsky, the best morality was Soviet collectivism.

Vygotsky intended to "create the new Soviet Man, the kind of being that would be needed in the Soviet society of the future." The psychologist conceived the "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD), a tool for reconditioning young minds and forming a new society from the old. Vygotsky aimed to deliver young collectivists to ruling class elites intent on "societal reconstruction."[10]

Ignoring Vygotsky's motives, the authors of America's early childhood education curricula train teachers in techniques based on the ZPD. A bit of investigation shows that education students are fed "grand" arguments and kept in the dark concerning "numerous underdeveloped ideas and contradictions."[11] The Tools of the Mind organization even admits that Vygotsky's theories are but "a specific set of beliefs." [Emphasis added.] The TOTM curriculum's effectiveness was tested only by a "quasi-experimental study" plagued with sloppy methods.[12] The truth is that there is simply no trustworthy proof that Vygotskyian techniques develop superior cognitive skills in children. Indoctrinated and misled, America's teachers are unwittingly using tactics conceived by a Marxist to spawn USSR-minded kids in the USA.

Teachers are also not informed that Vygotsky detested "capitalist culture," rejected Western society, and cherished the "tribal village." The psychologist prescribed a "moral education" blended "imperceptibly into all those general modes of behavior that may be established and regulated by the social environment." To accomplish the blending, Vygotskyian-trained teachers rigidly control the classroom environment and allow only authoritatively prescribed behaviors. Individualism is verboten. Gene by gene, the collectivist virus erases children's predisposition for achievement. Neuron by neuron, the bug weakens traditional morality. And teachers aren't even aware of having injected the pathogen.

Indeed, teachers faithfully condition children in Vygotsky's "new ways of interacting with people," unaware that those "ways" conform to totalitarian visions. Vygotsky sought to banish the "'pedagogical singsong' which prevails between teacher and student" and elicit behavior "that originates from...the group, and which is directed likewise to the entire group..." Utopian collectivism, pure and simple. The cunning in Vygotskyian methods lies in the manipulative use of the peer pressure inherent in children's play. The stratagem creates the "regulated" environment of collectivism. In Educational Psychology, Vygotsky wrote,

The school routine should be so organized that the child finds it best to go in step with the group, in the same way as when he is at play; that any departure from the group seem just as meaningless as quitting a game. Just like playing a game, life should demand a constant straining at the leash, a constant joy in concerted activity.

Play the "game." Stay "in step with the group." Mind "the leash." In one illustration of how these collectivist metaphors are set into action, a Tools of the Mind counting exercise requires children to take turns regulating and inhibiting each other's behavior. In TOTM's "mature, dramatic play," teachers "help children plan, and stay true to their plans in a way that emphasizes inhibitory control..."[13] The Vygotskyian method exploits little minds and turns play into a job performed to communal specifications. Children comply. Acclimation to the centrally planned society begins at three years old.

Vygotsky's presence in America's classrooms has grown over the last thirty years. This presence, an increasingly left-ideological media, and the burgeoning nanny state have disfigured the national psyche. A 2010 Rasmussen poll found 47 percent of Americans -- an appalling 63 percent under age thirty -- supportive of, or open to, socialism. While the poll doesn't prove that Vygotskyian schooling caused Americans to fall for lethal ideas, such distressing numbers do suggest that the Marxist's ghost has helped render millions of children receptive to collectivist falsehoods.

In kindergarten and preschool classrooms all over America, tiny young humans are being taught to regiment each other's behavior. Obedient little collectivists are learning to submit to group wishes in order to be judged "correct" -- politically correct. Resistance is futile.

A writer, physicist, and former high tech executive, Chuck Rogér invites you to visit his website,www.chuckroger.com. Email Chuck at swampcactus@chuckroger.com, Posted at the American Thinker

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[1] Diamond, Barnett, Thomas, and Munro, "Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control,"Science, Vol. 318, Nov 30, 2007, p. Supplemental Online Material, p. 7.

[2] L.S. Vygotsky, Mind in Society, Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 93.

[3] Mariane Hedegaard, "A Cultural-historical Approach to Learning in Classrooms," Outlines, No. 1, 2004, pp. 21-34. (Notice to Reader: The "study" referred to in this citation exemplifies the incomprehensible gobbledygook that impersonates education methods research. The paper exudes the sweeping nonsensicality typical of the "cultural-historical" teaching method, the Introduction alone containing multiple false and unproved claims stated as facts.)

[4] Vygotsky, p. 126.

[5] Uwe P. Gielen and Samvel S. Jeshmaridian, "Lev S. Vygotsky: The Man and the Era,"International Journal of Group Tensions, Vol. 28, Nos. 3/4, 1999, p. 276.

[6] Vygotsky, p. 102.

[7] Ibid, p. 93.

[8] Ibid, p. 126.

[9] Gielen and Jeshmaridian, p. 273.

[10] Ibid, pp. 275, 282, 279.

[11] Ibid, p. 297.

[12] Diamond, Barnett, Thomas, and Munro, pp. 13-16.

[13] Ibid, pp. 6, 8.

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RETURNS TO NYC SCHOOL AFTER PARENTS COMPLAIN DAUGHTER HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT IS

Imagine, for a moment, you’re sitting next to your child and video of a class reciting the Pledge of Allegiance flashes across the TV. Your child tugs on your shirt and innocently asks, “Mom, what are they doing? What are they saying?” Shocking, you might say. It would never happen. Guess what? It happened in New York City.

Joe and Winnie Fleischer of Brooklyn, NY were flabbergasted when they realized recently their daughter Brianna, 8, had no idea what the Pledge of Allegiance was. They thought it was common knowledge, especially in the classroom.

“I was shocked that she didn’t know the pledge,” Joe, a NYC firefighter, told the New York Daily News. “I thought she’d been doing it in school.”

They thought wrong.

So they went to the school, PS29, to change that. After spirited meetings with parents, teachers, and an “educational unit for kids,” the principal agreed to have the Pledge broadcast over the school’s loud speaker “for the first time in years.”

But here‘s what’s interesting. In New York, reciting the Pledge daily in schools is the law. The principal, then, isn’t doing anything revolutionary — she‘s just complying with what’s been mandated since just after 9/11.

Others, however, aren’t. The Daily News called 10 New York-area schools asking if they recite the Pledge regularly. Only half do.

Despite the law, not all of the school‘s parents share the Feischers’ affinity for the patriotic statement. One father told the Daily News he was worried his kids would be harassed for refraining and called it “social coercion.” Another branded it as unnecessary.

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By Richard Olivastro
November 17, 2008

Vermont is at it again.

This time, residents of the Town of Woodbury - approximately 700 adults - are quarreling over 'how and where' students at the local Elementary School should recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

First some background, followed by some legal history, en-route to what may be the underlying story.

It seems that "No one's sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside" at Woodbury's 19th-century schoolhouse, which has 55 students in four classrooms covering grades K-6.

In September, parent Ted Tedesco, took the initiative and "... began circulating petitions calling for its return as a daily practice". Officials agreed to resume the daily pledge, but "not in the classroom". Supporters of the Pledge say the classroom is the place for it; but school officials would not accept parental input and choice in the matter.

Beginning last week, "a sixth grade student was assigned to go around to the four classrooms before classes started, gathering up anyone who wanted to say it and then walking them up creaky wooden steps to a second-floor gymnasium, where he led them in the pledge".

The rationale offered by elementary school principal, Michaela Martin, "We don't want to isolate children every day in their own classroom, or make them feel they're different."

Tedesco, and other parents who signed the petitions, didn't like that solution. They say it is "disruptive to routine and inappropriate because it put young children in the position of having to decide between pre-class play time and leaving the classroom to say the Pledge".

Tedesco added, "Saying the Pledge in the classroom is legal, convenient and traditional. Asking kindergarten through sixth graders who want to say the Pledge to leave their classrooms to do so is neither convenient nor traditional."

He's right.

And, it may - or should - be illegal, to require schoolchildren who wish to recite the Pledge to have to leave their classroom to do so.

Then, last Friday, the venue was changed again by Principal Michaela Martin, with school board chair Retta Dunlap in attendance.

"Just before 8 a.m., the principal herded all the school's students -- and a handful of adults -- into a cramped foyer that adjoins the first-floor classrooms and told sixth-grader Nathan Gilbert, 12, to lead them in the Pledge."

Following that exercise, "10 adults streamed... outside, forming a circle around Dunlap for a heated discussion in which they pressed for an explanation of why it couldn't be said in the classrooms".

Board Chair Dunlap told the parents "the format is up to teachers, not administrators or parents".

"The children will get used to it, and they'll know what's expected of them," she added.

H'mm.

Later, Principal Martin said "the point of having the whole school gather for the Pledge was to protect children who don't participate in it. If you're in a classroom with 15 students and you choose not to say the Pledge, it's much more obvious than a group setting. When they're saying it in a group of 55, it may not be so obvious. We don't want to isolate children".

In 1943, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "schoolchildren can opt out of reciting the pledge for religious reasons". In other words, schools were no longer able to compel students to recite the pledge or salute the flag, although they could continue to ask them to do so, on a voluntary basis.

Nothing has changed regarding that ruling over the last 65 years. Schools can continue to recite the Pledge every day and the teacher can invite every student to participate.

Four years ago, atheist Michael Newdow sued because he objected to this daughter having to 'listen' to the words "under God" in the teacher-led recitation of the pledge. The Supreme Court ruled against Newdow. That ruling sustains the permission to practice reciting the Pledge 'in the classroom'.

By now, you likely have figured out the 'story underneath the story':

Woodbury Elementary School needs either a handful of teachers willing to lead the Pledge each day within their respective classrooms: or, a principal who will get out of their way and let the teachers lead the Pledge.

As Justice Felix Frankfurter explained, "National unity is the basis of national security. The flag is a symbol of our national unity".

Now, perhaps, more than ever, our country needs the Pledge of Allegiance.

For all American Citizens: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

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Richard Olivastro is a professional member of the National Speakers Association, president of Olivastro Communications - an executive leadership development company - and founder of Citizens For Change.