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After the 9/11 attacks, the Massachusetts Board of Education funded a special seminar for K-12 teachers to learn about Islamic history and the Middle East.
The outreach coordinator at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies helped organize the seminar. Stotsky said she was shocked by the teachers' lesson plans that came out of the week-long seminar.
"They ranged from having students make prayer rugs; describe what it would be like to go on a hajj--a pilgrimage; learn and memorize the five pillars of Islam; listen to and learn how to recite passages from the Koran; dress like a Muslim from a particular country.it was, to me, a clear violation of ethics involved in how one would expect children to learn about another culture. That they would literally go through the memorization and the learning of religious beliefs."
As organizer of Hamtramck High School’s first all-girl prom, which conforms to religious beliefs forbidding dating, dancing with boys or appearing without a head scarf in front of males, Tharima, 17, was forging a new rite of passage for every teenage Muslim girl who had ever spent prom night at home, wistfully watching the limousines roll by.
As organizer of Hamtramck High School’s first all-girl prom, which conforms to religious beliefs forbidding dating, dancing with boys or appearing without a head scarf in front of males, Tharima, 17, was forging a new rite of passage for every teenage Muslim girl who had ever spent prom night at home, wistfully watching the limousines roll by.
And what part of that was forced on every student regardless of belief? And is it teaching students there is no god but Allah? No, they are not the same. Righties think forcing Christian beliefs on all is fine, but even merely accommodating others is some conspiracy.
As organizer of Hamtramck High School’s first all-girl prom, which conforms to religious beliefs forbidding dating, dancing with boys or appearing without a head scarf in front of males, Tharima, 17, was forging a new rite of passage for every teenage Muslim girl who had ever spent prom night at home, wistfully watching the limousines roll by.
At first glance that might appear to be a good example but I do not believe it is. From my initial reading it was paid for and organized by the students. Schools may allow their facilities to be used this way as long as they allow others the same access. Its why students can organize Bible study classes on school property.
At first glance that might appear to be a good example but I do not believe it is. From my initial reading it was paid for and organized by the students. Schools may allow their facilities to be used this way as long as they allow others the same access. Its why students can organize Bible study classes on school property.
It wasn't even at the school. Just another example that righties are doing a poor job at hiding their contempt for others.
Some schools/teachers have been called on the carpet for "teaching" religions of all kinds (I put that word in quotes because talking about things is different than preaching about things). That does nothing to change the weirdness of the OP though does it?
And what part of that was forced on every student regardless of belief? And is it teaching students there is no god but Allah? No, they are not the same. Righties think forcing Christian beliefs on all is fine, but even merely accommodating others is some conspiracy.
Schools here actually had kids reading pagan books like Harry Potter. Certainly that pushes a non Christian religion and magic.
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