School's foreign language Pledge draws protest

Monday it was Spanish. Tuesday it was French. Yesterday it was Russian, and this morning it was Korean.

At Old Mill High School, the morning Pledge of Allegiance was recited over the public address system in foreign languages each day this week. To Charles Linton, that's just plain un-American.

"I ain't gonna stand up and pledge my allegiance to the United States in any foreign language," said a furious Mr. Linton, who pulled his ninth-grade son, Patrick, out of class this morning.

The practice celebrates National Foreign Language week, Old Mill Assistant Principal Mary Lappe said, and has been done at the school for...