Schools close after parents freak out over Islam homework in Virginia
- 8 years ago
GREENVILLE, VIRGINIA — Schools in Augusta County, Virginia were closed because some parents were very upset about a 9th grade World Geography homework assignment at Riverheads High School that asked students to try writing in Arabic calligraphy, CNN reported.
The assignment, which is part of the school curriculum about world religions, asked the students to try writing the Islamic shahada in Arabic script that translates to 'There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.' The disgruntled parents claimed that the assignment was an attempt by the teacher to indoctrinate their kids into converting to Islam. Concerned parent Kimberly Herndon kept her son home from school and told WHSV: "I will not have my children sit under a woman who indoctrinates them with the Islam religion when I am a Christian."
According to CNN, the school upped security after a flood of emails and phone calls expressing outrage over the lesson and the teacher's audacity to educate the students about Islam. Although the world geography teacher is being thrown under the bus, there's also some people out there who support multicultural curriculum being taught in public schools. Netizens have responded to the Islamophobic fervor on both sides of the fence.
According to a statistic from Balletopedia.org, the 23 schools in Augusta County had about 10,755 students in the 2012-2013 school year. That's a lot of kids that get a three-day weekend!
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The assignment, which is part of the school curriculum about world religions, asked the students to try writing the Islamic shahada in Arabic script that translates to 'There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.' The disgruntled parents claimed that the assignment was an attempt by the teacher to indoctrinate their kids into converting to Islam. Concerned parent Kimberly Herndon kept her son home from school and told WHSV: "I will not have my children sit under a woman who indoctrinates them with the Islam religion when I am a Christian."
According to CNN, the school upped security after a flood of emails and phone calls expressing outrage over the lesson and the teacher's audacity to educate the students about Islam. Although the world geography teacher is being thrown under the bus, there's also some people out there who support multicultural curriculum being taught in public schools. Netizens have responded to the Islamophobic fervor on both sides of the fence.
According to a statistic from Balletopedia.org, the 23 schools in Augusta County had about 10,755 students in the 2012-2013 school year. That's a lot of kids that get a three-day weekend!
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