Virginia School System closes for the day over threats bc of Islam homework

[masterpanthera_t]

Maybe calling for death threats etc., was over the line, but I don' t have a problem with opposing the content of what was being asked to be written. If the idea was to show that the calligraphy was difficult, well there needs to be a different way to do so than to ask people to write another religion's beliefs. And if no such way exists, then it's either stricken from the curriculum or simply a "this is considered to be difficult and we'll leave it at that" should suffice. In the same way one doesn't need to live the life of a monk (for a day or two or for a week), in order to understand the difficulty or any other aspect of a monk's life as a lesson in public school. If one chose this voluntarily, that's a different story.