Schools Closed in Virginia District After Uproar Over Arabic Calligraphy Lesson

[Pogo]

'A parent organized a forum Tuesday night about the lesson, calling it "indoctrination" in Islam, The News Leader reported.'

More ignorance, hate, and stupidity.

We can only hope such individuals constitute but a very small minority.

You can thank Islam for this overreaction. Like blacks demanding the resignation of a DC employee for using the word niggardly.

That was ONE guy, not "blacks". And after he did resign, once the mayor looked into it he hired him back.

 

[Davros]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Not to engage in braggadocio, but the Catholic ELEMENTARY schools I attended dealt with ALL that and more, save economics.

Then what did you do in High School?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Are you proud, conservative wingnuts?


Schools Closed in Virginia District After Uproar Over Arabic Calligraphy Lesson

Schools Closed After Uproar Over Arabic Calligraphy Lesson

A central Virginia school district has cancelled classes Friday after concerns over the "tone and content" of calls and emails received about a lesson in Arabic calligraphy.

Augusta County Public Schools, near Staunton in central Virginia, will be closed after the district received "voluminous phone calls and electronic mail locally and from outside the area" about a high school World Geography class lesson, the district announced Thursday evening.

In a lesson Friday on the Middle East, students were presented with an Islamic statement of faith written in Arabic calligraphy, superintendent Eric Bond told The News Leader.

"The students were presented with the statement to demonstrate the complex artistry of the written language used in the Middle East, and were asked to attempt to copy it in order to give the students an idea of the artistic complexity of the calligraphy," a statement Bond gave the paper said.
The statement was not translated into English, and students were not asked to "translate it, recite it or otherwise adopt or pronounce it as a personal belief," Bond said.

A parent organized a forum Tuesday night about the lesson, calling it "indoctrination" in Islam, The News Leader reported.

leftist hypocrisy has not limit, none.

Just trying to imagine the outcry from leftist filth if the kids were given a commandment written in latin .

then reread this ***** op

Try to fathom how hard it is to be this hateful, this hypocritical and not explode.


the more muslims attack and murder us, they more they force themselves upon us, the more the left helps them.

how can leftist be ok with this lesson right after the mass shooting?

b/c they just don't care

There's a difference between teaching religions and practicing religions. Some people know the difference.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Not to engage in braggadocio, but the Catholic ELEMENTARY schools I attended dealt with ALL that and more, save economics.

Then what did you do in High School?

Deeper studies, and parties. Lots and lots of parties.

 

[frigidweirdo]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Bunch of rednecks in central virginia.

There are many skills that need to be learned, history is a great platform for teaching skills. Doesn't matter what you teach really.

Yes, students also need to learn about Human Rights, both in the US and other countries, they also need to learn why things in US govt are important.

 

[ninja007]

hey OP- maybe some Christian students in the ME can do some bible verse reading in a muslim school?

 

[Davros]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Not to engage in braggadocio, but the Catholic ELEMENTARY schools I attended dealt with ALL that and more, save economics.

Then what did you do in High School?

Deeper studies, and parties. Lots and lots of parties.

Deeper studies of what? Those same topics? If so my post stands as a good High School Social Studies curriculum.

 

[westwall]

Imagine an art class being taught how to properly draw one of these:

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But, of course, with no explanation of how it might have been used in the last century.

Now WHO could possibly be upset by that?

I bet you loved posting your favorite insignia. Any excuse to Heil Hitler, eh troll?

The only problem with your assertion of course is that it is a symbol used by almost every aboriginal and pagan culture ever found. It dates back at least 12,000 years.

 

[Davros]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Bunch of rednecks in central virginia.

There are many skills that need to be learned, history is a great platform for teaching skills. Doesn't matter what you teach really.

Yes, students also need to learn about Human Rights, both in the US and other countries, they also need to learn why things in US govt are important.

History needs to be learned in detail.

 

[Davros]

Imagine an art class being taught how to properly draw one of these:

View attachment 57208​

But, of course, with no explanation of how it might have been used in the last century.

Now WHO could possibly be upset by that?

I bet you loved posting your favorite insignia. Any excuse to Heil Hitler, eh troll?

The only problem with your assertion of course is that it is a symbol used by almost every aboriginal and pagan culture ever found. It dates back at least 12,000 years.

12,00 years of non controversial use was wiped away by 12 years of one asshole's dictatorship.

 

[westwall]

Imagine an art class being taught how to properly draw one of these:

View attachment 57208​

But, of course, with no explanation of how it might have been used in the last century.

Now WHO could possibly be upset by that?

I bet you loved posting your favorite insignia. Any excuse to Heil Hitler, eh troll?

The only problem with your assertion of course is that it is a symbol used by almost every aboriginal and pagan culture ever found. It dates back at least 12,000 years.

12,00 years of non controversial use was wiped away by 12 years of one asshole's dictatorship.

Not really. Only PC morons who don't understand, or value, history allow themselves to associate that symbol with Hitler. India is filled with the symbol.

 

[frigidweirdo]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Bunch of rednecks in central virginia.

There are many skills that need to be learned, history is a great platform for teaching skills. Doesn't matter what you teach really.

Yes, students also need to learn about Human Rights, both in the US and other countries, they also need to learn why things in US govt are important.

History needs to be learned in detail.

Why?

What purpose does learning history in detail give kids to help them with their lives?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Not to engage in braggadocio, but the Catholic ELEMENTARY schools I attended dealt with ALL that and more, save economics.

Then what did you do in High School?

Deeper studies, and parties. Lots and lots of parties.

Deeper studies of what? Those same topics?

Of course. One doesn't teach elementary school students about Dr. Mengele injecting blue dye into the eyes of Jewish children or Charlie hammering pencils into the ear canals of Christian children.

At least, normal people don't.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Imagine an art class being taught how to properly draw one of these:

View attachment 57208​

But, of course, with no explanation of how it might have been used in the last century.

Now WHO could possibly be upset by that?

I bet you loved posting your favorite insignia. Any excuse to Heil Hitler, eh troll?

The only problem with your assertion of course is that it is a symbol used by almost every aboriginal and pagan culture ever found. It dates back at least 12,000 years.

12,00 years of non controversial use was wiped away by 12 years of one asshole's dictatorship.

Not really. Only PC morons who don't understand, or value, history allow themselves to associate that symbol with Hitler. India is filled with the symbol.

I believe the Australian Aboriginals also have that symbol in their repertoire. Their vocal histories go back 40,000 years.

 

[westwall]

World Geography should be taught in 7th and 8th grades. High schoolers should be learning Western History over 3 semesters, US history over 3 semesters, US Government, and Economics. High school minds need to be learning the fundamental concepts that make our society tick. They should be preparing to become informed voters, not Muslim calligraphers.

Bunch of rednecks in central virginia.

There are many skills that need to be learned, history is a great platform for teaching skills. Doesn't matter what you teach really.

Yes, students also need to learn about Human Rights, both in the US and other countries, they also need to learn why things in US govt are important.

History needs to be learned in detail.

Why?

What purpose does learning history in detail give kids to help them with their lives?

Because it helps them to see when they are being propagandized and also how to think critically. Only progressives don't like to teach history. they like to hide in the shadows...

 

[Steven_R]

I've got no problem with teaching kids history or Muslim/Arab culture, if for no other reason than to show them the world. But if we're going to teach kids Arabic calligraphy, there are any number of examples they could have used that didn't involve any religious writings. I mean, in this day and age of hyper-sensitivity over anything Muslim, the people doing this just had to know it was going to backfire spectacularly.

Either it was intentional or the people who came up with this lesson plan were unbelievably stupid.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I've got no problem with teaching kids history or Muslim/Arab culture, if for no other reason than to show them the world. But if we're going to teach kids Arabic calligraphy, there are any number of examples they could have used that didn't involve any religious writings. I mean, in this day and age of hyper-sensitivity over anything Muslim, the people doing this just had to know it was going to backfire spectacularly.

Either it was intentional or the people who came up with this lesson plan were unbelievably stupid.

Does it matter if it's religious or not? I doubt anyone can read it anyway.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Considering the current national sentiment toward Islam, it's an intentional slap in the face.

 

[Davros]

Imagine an art class being taught how to properly draw one of these:

View attachment 57208​

But, of course, with no explanation of how it might have been used in the last century.

Now WHO could possibly be upset by that?

I bet you loved posting your favorite insignia. Any excuse to Heil Hitler, eh troll?

The only problem with your assertion of course is that it is a symbol used by almost every aboriginal and pagan culture ever found. It dates back at least 12,000 years.

12,00 years of non controversial use was wiped away by 12 years of one asshole's dictatorship.

Not really. Only PC morons who don't understand, or value, history allow themselves to associate that symbol with Hitler. India is filled with the symbol.

India can do what they want. In the west, the swastika now means only one thing. Hitler ruined it. It is now a symbol of fear and murder. One who is well aware of western history cannot see it without feeling a chill.

 

[Davros]

Considering the current national sentiment toward Islam, it's an intentional slap in the face.

Why should there be a national sentiment against Islam? Bunch of rednecks.