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| Texas students dress in burqas, taught to call Muslim terrorists 'freedom fighters' |
| 2013-02-27 |
| A Texas politician is launching an investigation after a high school teacher reportedly invited her female students to dress in burqas and refer to Moslem hard boyz as "freedom fighters." State Sen. Dan Patrick told Fox News he is very disturbed by a Facebook photograph posted by one of the students in a world geography class at Lumberton High School, which showed them in Islamic garb. He also is investigating reports that the students were forced to write an essay based on an article in The Washington Post that blamed Egypt's turmoil on democracy rather than the Moslem Brüderbund. "Parents are very sensitive to any issue that seems to be anti-American -- that blames democracy for some sort of trouble in the world," he told Fox. "I felt like the line had been crossed," a parent of the daughter who posted the Facebook photo told Fox. "Christian kids who want to pray have to do it outside of school hours -- yet Islam is being taught to our kids during school hours." The girl's father is confused why a geography class is teaching religion at all. "She went from learning about Mexico to learning about Russia to learning about Islam," he told Fox. "Islam is not a country. Islam is not a continent." The school district released a statement to Fox News defending the class: "The lesson that was offered focused on exposing students to world cultures, religions, customs and belief systems. The lesson is not teaching a specific religion, and the students volunteered to wear the clothing." The parents contacted the principal, who defended the program required under CSCOPE, a controversial electronic curriculum system that provides online lesson plans for teachers, Fox News reports. "This is the normal answer from every school using CSCOPE," said Janice VanCleave, the founder of Texas CSCOPE Review, which monitors what is being taught in the state's schools. "They are definitely promoting the Islamic religion." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 What else are cross-pieces on lampposts for? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-02-27 16:43 |
| #10 Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son A man had to answer for the wicked that he done. Take all the rope in Texas. Find a tall oak tree. Round up all of them bad boys. Hang them high in the street for all the people to see |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-02-27 15:50 |
| #9 But that is in TEXAS and I assure you Governor Perry probably spit coffee all over his desk when he read this. I expect some corrective action...rope...school administrators...tree. Some assembly required but then this is Texas and the good citizens will figure it out...the rope administrator tree thing. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-02-27 15:03 |
| #8 ....or a cannibal's pot. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-27 14:22 |
| #7 ...and our "melting pot" continures on its inexorable(?) march towards becoming a dumpster.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-02-27 13:54 |
| #6 Very true CF. Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I was watching the Champ on teevee tell the Rosa Parks and the mean ole bus driver story. As you might imagine, it's one of personal fav's. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-27 12:01 |
| #5 I don't know Besoeker - they (government) didn't seem to mind when the Occuturds did it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-02-27 11:47 |
| #4 Changes are coming. CSCOPE Changes. The only way that oversight and and changes can be brought about in an out-of-control educational system is for parents to exert pressure on the school system, the State regulatory agencies, elected representatives, the PTA, the school administrators. They should use the media that is sympathetic. Raise holy hell! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-02-27 09:59 |
| #3 "The lesson that was offered focused on exposing students to world cultures, religions, customs and belief systems. The lesson is not teaching a specific religion, and the students volunteered to wear the clothing." How about some administrator and teacher cultural sensitivity training with a week in a North Korean Gulag environment. I'm sure you'll 'volunteer' too. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-02-27 09:37 |
| #2 Or, Besoeker, when the boys start dressing in burkas and going into the girls' locker room... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-02-27 07:49 |
| #1 The local board of education may wish to redraw "the line" when the Burqa kiddies begin squatting on the sidewalks and defecating. Just say'n. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-27 06:42 |