12-18-2015, 04:23 PM
(12-18-2015, 04:16 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/us/virginia-school-shut-islam-homework/index.html
So in a World Geography class, a teacher covers religions of the world. In the Islam lesson, there is an assignment from a third party test book. It has students attempt to copy some arabic calligraphy to see how complicated it is. The phrase was the Muslim statement of faith ("There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.").
Side note: as a teacher, I would not have had them write this, but rather some random phrase instead. That's actually what the principal said they will change this assignment to in the future.
Anyways, parents believed this was an attempt to convert their kids to Islam. There were a lot of angry parents demanding that the teacher be fired. Then the calls and emails came in... many from outside the area and many targeting the class. Law enforcement and the school system took these threats and decided they needed to close school for the day.
What makes people so irrational when it comes to religion? The school board's solution was absolutely reasonable, yet the threats come in?
I am not religious, my family has never been religious, yet I have never freaked out when religion was around in school. The pledge of allegiance references god, I didn't run around screaming the school is trying to force religion on me, I simply stood there and did it. When I was in HS the wrestling coach used to huddle everyone up and do a prayer before a match, I didn't freak out I simply stood there silently then went about my business. People for some reason act like when it comes to religion, simply uttering something they don't believe in is a push to brain wash them or their children.
The teacher pulled something out of a book, they said they wouldn't do it anymore. No harm no foul move on people.
