Glenn Interviews Dad of TX Girl Who Refused to Recite Mexican Pledge in Class

The Blaze's exclusive story on the McAllen, TX high school that assigned students the task of memorizing and reciting the Mexican national anthem and pledge of allegiance grabbed headlines across the blogosphere on Monday. It naturally grabbed the attention of many parents. On Monday morning, then, Glenn interviewed the father behind the story, William Brinsdon. William's daughter, Brenda, is the 15-year-old girl who refused to participate in the assignment and recorded it.

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"So you're in a Spanish class and you have to sing the National Anthem of Mexico," Glenn began, explaining the controversy's nuances. "You have a problem with that. All right. Then you're asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. You have a problem with that. Well, yeah. I'm not pledging my allegiance to Mexico. But you're told not to worry about it because the words don't ‑‑ they're just words. They don't mean anything. Well, then so now I'm insulting Mexicans and Mexico because now I'm just devaluing the words of their pledge? Something's not right, and it's happening down in Texas. A girl came home, told her father about it in Spanish class. She didn't do it. Dad's on the phone with us now."

William described how he was surprised when Brenda told him about the assignment, how he contacted several school officials and never got any promised calls back, and even revealed another disturbing case of some shocking claims.

"The indoctrination of this stuff is going on all the time down here," he said. "And also last year she was told in her Spanish class that this land was stolen from Mexico, yada, yada, was told to be quiet through the class."

That time, the Brinsdons didn't stand up. This time they did.

"I'll tell you I think that you are just one of very, very many that are going to start standing up and just not ‑‑ and just not sitting down anymore," Glenn told the father. "But you're going to feel awfully alone there for a while because I know. I hear it from people all the time: 'Hey, thank goodness for ‑‑ thank goodness for you saying something,' [And I ask], 'Are you going to say something?'  [They respond] 'No, I ‑‑ no, I got a big bank job.  I can't say anything.  No, I can't.' Oh, okay, all right."

According to William, the practice has since stopped. But in our original interview with Brenda, she said that while her class was no longer memorizing the pledge and anthem, students in other sections were.

You can watch the entire interview below: