An elementary school teacher in Littleton, Massachusetts, is facing criticism from students and parents for taking a knee as her students recited the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday.

A substitute teacher at Russell Street Elementary School decided to protest during the pledge and afterward reportedly shared her political views with the students, according to New England Cable News.

After students and parents complained, the school district quickly apologized and noted that the district did not sanction the teacher’s actions.

“The Littleton Public Schools respect the rights of all individuals to participate or respectfully abstain from participating in the Pledge of Allegiance,” Russell Street Principal Scott Bazydlo said. “While this topic is timely and does have educational merit, it should be addressed sensitively and age-appropriately by permanent faculty and inclusive of the beliefs of all children and families.”

Bazydlo added, “While well-intended…[it] should not have taken place in the fashion it did.”

NBC Boston reported that one parent said, “I agree with what they’re doing, I just don’t think it’s the proper place for it, but in the same token, I think if the teacher could make her views known in a more apolitical way perhaps. I think trying to impart your own political views to students … I think it’s inappropriate.”

Other parents told NBC that the pledge wasn’t the time or the place for such a discussion.

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In a stunning development, a woman who has identified herself as a Puerto Rican police officer called into a New York City Hispanic radio station to make the incredible claim that San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz is blocking the distribution of hurricane relief supplies to suffering citizens.

Mayor Yulin Cruz has become the focal point of the media’s weekly slime and destroy campaign against President Donald Trump and has been defended by Democrats and RINO Republicans alike for her claim on CNN that the Trump administration was enabling genocide by not providing sufficient relief.

But something smells like a rat with this bitch, from the CNN interview with Anderson Cooper where she had a fresh new t-shirt with the slogan “HELP US WE ARE DYING” to the rapid response of Democrats and their mouthpieces that have turned her into a persecuted victim of a mean man who hates non-whites and women.

Cracks began to appear in the narrative earlier when a fellow mayor pointed out that Yulin Cruz had not been in attendance during FEMA meetings, rather she seems to be busy cultivating her political career and if the call from the woman is true – quite possibly using criminal methods by impeding the flow of supplies to those who need them to inflict maximum damage on Trump.

Here’s the interview (note: turn on closed captioning to get the English translation)

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“The Mayor, Carmen Yulin, is not allowing anyone to distribute [aid supplies],” the unidentified police officer told hosts on Mega 97.9 in New York. “I need to pass this information out because the stuff that is being brought from the U.S. it is not being distributed. They are not allowing the Puerto Rican people to receive the donations.”

“There are dozens and thousands and thousands of food and when people ask we cannot give anything away because Carmen Yulin says that we cannot take anything out,” the officer said blaming the publicity-hungry Mayor. “Everything is a soap opera, everything is a show there have to be cameras here because they are looking for votes.”

The Democrats and their allies will stop at nothing to exploit the tragedy and human misery brought by this natural disaster to destroy Trump just like they did to George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina, they are even bragging about it.

There has been no identification of the woman on the call and no independent verification on whether it is indeed true but it would seem to fit with stories emerging of thousands of shipping containers full of aid supplies and food that are sitting and rotting in the sun due to an uncanny lack of the ability to get truck drivers to distribute them to the people.

(AFP) COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish military deployed troops in Copenhagen on Friday to guard the city’s synagogue and the Israeli embassy, hours ahead of the Yom Kippur Jewish holiday.

The deployment was the first by troops in the Danish capital since WWII.

The synagogue and the Israeli embassy have been under police protection since two deadly attacks in 2015.

An AFP correspondent at the scene saw armed soldiers standing outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue, with the narrow medieval street where it is located sealed off on both ends, hours before the start of Yom Kippur on Friday evening.

“This is the first time they are used in this type of situation, so it’s unique,” Copenhagen police spokesman Rasmus Bernt Skovsgaard said.

Danish police have protected Jewish institutions in the country since Omar El-Hussein, a Danish citizen of Palestinian origin who swore allegiance to the Islamic State group, opened fire outside the synagogue, killing one Jewish man and wounding two police officers in 2015.

Hours earlier, El-Hussein attacked a cultural centre hosting a free speech and Islam forum attended by the controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who faced death threats for penning a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad.

A filmmaker, Finn Norgaard, was killed in that attack. Police later killed El-Hussein.

The soldiers, who will be deployed until March 2018, are “well-trained and equipped to carry out this type of mission,” Lieutenant Colonel Steen Dalsgaard of the Danish army told AFP.

Some 160 soldiers have been deployed in Copenhagen and at the Danish-German border, where controls were restored at the end of 2015 to limit a migrant influx.

Denmark’s terror threat level is “serious”, ranked four on a five-point scale, according to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).

The latest deployment is not a response to any new threat, but rather aims to assist Copenhagen police strained by operations in other parts of the city.

Police will continue to guard the Jewish museum and the school.

Fans may have a serious problem with how multimillionaire malcontents have used their rich black athlete privilege to hijack the NFL to promote their political beliefs but it must be particularly galling to the old school guys who played back in the era when real men who roamed the gridiron.

There is nobody more old school than Iron Mike Ditka.

Most recognize Ditka as the head coach of the Super Bowl-winning 1986 Chicago Bears team and later the New Orleans Saints as well as a prolific pitchman but the legendary tough guy had a Hall of Fame career as a player.

During his twelve-year career, Ditka helped to define the position of the modern tight end and was a five-time All-Pro for the Bears, Cowboys and Eagles. Not only could he catch but like many of the era’s hard-nosed players, he punished opponents physically with his blocking.

Not only was the game still a game when Ditka played – players weren’t spoiled millionaires – but they understood the importance of patriotism as well as respected the nation that gave them the opportunity to earn a living playing a game.

Limp-wristed whining leftist fruit bags like Colin Kaepernick couldn’t have made a team as a waterboy during that era and it comes as no surprise that Ditka has little patience for a man who has somehow managed to become a messianic figure to liberal lepers.

When a Dallas radio station caught up with Ditka, he didn’t hold back with his feelings.

Coach Ditka is NOT messing around! https://t.co/AgdKH4NJ1Q #TurnOffNFL

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) October 1, 2017

Via Newsbusters “Ditka: ‘You Don’t Like the Country, Get the Hell Out!’ — ‘I Have No Respect’ for Kaepernick”:

Three-time Super Bowl champion and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Mike Ditka, who also is an analyst for ESPN’s NFL Live, said he did not agree with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — now a free agent — kneeling in protest during the national anthem, saying he had “no respect for Kaepernick” and that if you don’t like the country, then “get the Hell out!”

During a Sept. 23 interview on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan program, the host asked, “Where do you stand on this whole Colin Kaepernick issue?  Do you have a problem with Colin Kaepernick?”

Ditka, a two-time NFL Coach of the Year, said, “I think it’s a problem when anybody who disrespects this country and the flag. If they don’t like the country, they don’t like our flag, get the Hell out! That’s what I think.”

“So, if you’re asking me, I have no respect for Colin Kaepernick,” said Ditka.  “He probably has no respect for me. That’s his choice.”

“My choice is that I like this country, I respect our flag, and I don’t see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on,” said Ditka, who coached the Chicago Bears to their victory in Super Bowl XX.

“I see opportunities, if people want to look for opportunity,” said Ditka.  “Now, if they don’t want to look for them, then you can find problems with anything.”

“But this is the land of opportunity because you can be anything you want to be, if you work.,” he said. “Now, if you don’t work, that’s a different problem.”

It’s pretty hard to argue with any of what Ditka said. The problem with the current generation of players is that they have had everything given to them on a silver platter, have no respect for either the fans or country that saved them from having to work for a living and no clue when it comes to either history or traditional American values.