Discussion: Virginia School District Closes After Backlash Over Arabic Assignment

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Can these fundamentalist yahoos get any more daft? (Don’t answer.)

And since when did high school become “The Lord’s time”?

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(Sighs) I live very near to this location. I can attest there are many folks who can’t/won’t critical think.

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So can’t they just cut to the chase and enroll their precious little spawn in Liberty University Prep?

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LOL! Ahhh … but Liberty costs bucks.

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Take thee to the fainting couch… Closed down the entire school district?? Get a grip, folks!

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It’s generally better to keep ALL religion out of school, unless the subject is along the lines of ‘comparative religion’. Using that particular ‘Statement of Faith’ was a knucklehead move, and asking for trouble.

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I think she’s saying that there’s a “C” for Christ in eduCation, but there is no “M” for Muhammad.

Or something like that.

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Then why do they pronounce it eduMaCation? LOL

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I think you’re right. When in doubt–maybe she didn’t doubt her lesson–don’t. I am pretty certain there are many other statements in the same language that are just as aesthetically pleasing for calligraphy. That said, many of these parents got freaked out over nothing (IMO).

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Creeping Sharia, that’s why!!!

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I swear. For people that supposedly believe in (and according to them are under the protection of) an all-knowing, all-seeing, omnipotent overlord, Christians sure are afraid of anything and everything that doesn’t agree 100% with their twisted world view. They’re afraid of everything. Why?

Land of the brave and home of the free my a$$.
This has become a nation of cowardly bedwetters.

Conservatives - You Built That!

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To answer one great man’s astoundingly profound question: “Yes, our children is learning.”

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I am curious - who translated that text for them?

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Good question. I’ll be right back.

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Trump’s white male nationalism Republican Party is based on ignorance and apparently they are afraid their
children are becoming more educated and informed than themselves.

Take a poll - I’ll bet my next pay check the complaining parents can’t find Syria or Montana on a map.

Ignorance is bliss.
Knowledge is power!

Looks like Sharia law is just fine - as long as it is the right wing nut Christian version!

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Seriously, these people need a hobby, maybe they can go pick up supplies this Sunday :wink:

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Plenty of stupidity to go around here.

As an atheist who believes devoutly (ha ha) in non-secular public education, it was incredibly shortsighted by the teacher to assign this particular bit of text for the students to learn calligraphy. What in hell did she expect was going to be the reaction of the community? The notion that there wasn’t a single other example of text that could have served perfectly well for a freaking calligraphy project is mind-boggling. She poked the fucking hornet’s nest, and if she didn’t realize it was a hornet’s nest to begin with, she’s a clueless dope.

Having said that, the parents who are so outraged over their precious little snowflake being exposed to another religion that it results in the closing of the school are brain-dead idiots.

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It was a questionable passage to refer to on a lesson about calligraphy.

However, would those same parents have been up in arms if the lesson would have been copying an Old Testament passage in Hebrew? Methinks not!

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The source I used (http://www.nbc29.com/story/30780272/controversial-assignment-reactions-prompt-augusta-co-schools-to-close) doesn’t specify. They just say “When parents found out …” which could mean anything from they discovered it on their own or they relied on school officials. Either way, there doesn’t seem to be any contention the translation is incorrect.

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