Controversial Principal Allegedly Strikes Patriotic Song from School Ceremony | Healthy Living - Yahoo Shine:
A Brooklyn elementary school principal with areputation for banning patriotic songs has reportedly forbidden students from marching into a school assembly to a tune called “Stand Up for the Red, White and Blue.”
According to a story published Sunday by theNew York Daily News, Public School 90 Edna Cohen School principal Greta Hawkins will not allow 54 pre-K students from walking into a June 19th ceremony to the song which was scheduled to play over the school’s broadcast system. As an explanation, Hawkins, 54, told her staff that no one had asked her permission to play it.
The song includes lyrics such as, “I’ll always do my part, I love my land that’s free.”
Hawkins did not return Yahoo Shine’s calls for comments, however a school secretary told Shine that the song was never slated for the program.
The principal, who arrived at PS90 in 2009, has caused controversy in the past. According to the New York Times, in 2012, Hawkins rejected the country song “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood from an end-of-year kindergarten ceremony for being too aggressive for small children.
A spokesperson for the New York City Department of Education pointed to the opening line “If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life…” as one example.
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