(9NEWS) — A Fort Collins principal stands by his decision to allow students from a multicultural group to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic on the school’s intercom.
“We do say the Pledge of Allegiance on Mondays at Rocky Mountain High School,” principal Tom Lopez said.
Students have always said it in English. This year, a group with about 30 students approached Lopez with a request to translate and recite the pledge in other languages.
“They had to go through me for approval, and I reviewed it pretty carefully,” Lopez said.
First, the students translated and read French. Then they recited the pledge in Spanish last fall. Monday, students read the pledge in Arabic.
“We have a tremendous amount of diversity in our school,” Lopez said. “This is very American, not un-American.”
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