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(Record Online) In an effort to celebrate ‘National Foreign Language Week’ by reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic Wednesday, has polarized Pine Bush Senior High School in New York into angry factions.
Wednesday morning’s regularly scheduled announcements included an Arabic reading of the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ according to students, the announcement was immediately greeted with catcalls and angry denunciations in classrooms throughout the school.
Following the reading, High School Principal Aaron Hopmayer, made a building wide announcement, attempting to rationalize the reading’s context and made an apology to students that were offended.
Superintendent Joan Carbone described the reading as “something that was to be good but turned out not to be.” Cabone says that shes received complaints from district residents who had family members in the War in Afghanistan and from Jewish parents who were equally outraged by the reading.
Pine Bush Senior High School is no stranger to controversy. In 2013 Jewish parents sued the school in Federal Ct accusing them of being indifferent to chronic antisemitic harassment.
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