May 25, 2012 2 min read

This concerns the May 17 Brownsville Area School Board meeting.

Mrs. Raja’s daughter came home from school and told her mother about what her homeroom teacher had done. So following protocol she called the principal and was told that he backed the teacher, so she than called the superintendent and was told the same.

She went to the April 17 board meeting and asked the question of the superintendent who conferred with their solicitor sitting right beside him, and she was again told that her daughter had to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. If you know the ruling by the Supreme Court, you know this is not what it said.

This child was not only given detention, but written papers were put in her file that will follow her for the rest of her life.

So after all of the above, if the people in charge knew the ruling, none of this would have happened. But I would be ashamed to know a parent that would not stand up for her/his child when the law is being broken.

I certainly didn’t see this outrage when they wrongly suspended the Spanish teacher. They replaced her with a substitute who was not a Spanish teacher. That shows how concerned they are about the students. I will bet you taxpayers paid plenty. Maybe since the Brownsville school district keeps costing the taxpayers so much money and they are so poor — just maybe it ought to come out of their pockets.

One last thing. I would like to apologize to the parents of this child because with all the name calling and rhetoric at this meeting I could not even think or I would have said what this letter says at that meeting.

M. Gray

Brownsville