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Schools in VA Shutting Down because of Islam Homework Assignment

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I like how Islam being taught in school gets that shit shut down instantly, celebrating Christmas, not so much. 🙂
 
Oyeve said:
But, why would any one even give that particular quote as a homework assignment? Surely there are 100s of other quotes? Seems like some asshat wanted to further infuriate.
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In light of the sad events in San Bernardino, I think the people responsible for the assignment were insensitive and were trolling.
They should be fired.

Augusta County School District officials are BONE HEADS: The class assignment should have canceled not the whole school district.
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SP33Demon said:
Except that didn't happen. The school shut down to figure out wtf to do.
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Yeah...keep on making stuff up.

But as the week went on, officials got more specific about the source of concern -- calls and email messages -- and their target -- the world geography class.
"The school division began receiving voluminous phone calls and electronic mail locally and from outside the area," the school system said. And the "tone and content" were nasty.
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As passions overflow, for fear of their potential effects, Augusta County Schools will remain shuttered over the weekend for all activities.
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If you can read you can deduce that the schools received threats, which is essentially terrorism.
 
So you think the entire school district closed...BECAUSE OF NOTHING?
Are YOU that dense? Of course they received threats...
 
flexy said:
So you think the entire school district closed...BECAUSE OF NOTHING?
Are YOU that dense? Of course they received threats...
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They didn't close because of threats, they closed to convene on a solution for the problem with 20,000 angry parents putting pressure on them to either fire the teacher or remove that POS homework from the curriculum or both. This isn't a snap decision that can be made under that much pressure. The threats weren't the reason they closed.
 
SP33Demon said:
"Nasty" does not equate to threats of bodily harm. Are you dense?
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Apparently you missed this the 1st time:

"Some messages to the Virginia school district contained profane and graphic content, including a call to behead the teacher who gave the assignment, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said."

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/18...es-all-schools

"Sheriff Randall D. Fisher says security has been assigned to the Bond, the teacher who created the lesson and the school's principal. He says the district received tens of thousands of emails and Facebook posts, some "threatening and very profane in nature."

http://www.wral.com/the-latest-secur...nger/15185717/
 
Victorian Gray said:
Apparently you missed this the 1st time:

"Some messages to the Virginia school district contained profane and graphic content, including a call to behead the teacher who gave the assignment, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said."

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/18...es-all-schools

"Sheriff Randall D. Fisher says security has been assigned to the Bond, the teacher who created the lesson and the school's principal. He says the district received tens of thousands of emails and Facebook posts, some "threatening and very profane in nature."

http://www.wral.com/the-latest-secur...nger/15185717/
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No, I don't read the toronto sun so I didn't see that. Well, that teacher should probably be given a paid LOA for doing something so stupid in such a hypersensitive muslim climate. I'm surprised they were calling for her head (literally) but she shouldn't be allowed to teach for awhile until the whole thing dies down then.
 
SP33Demon said:
No, I don't read the toronto sun so I didn't see that. Well, that teacher should probably be given a paid LOA for doing something so stupid in such a hypersensitive muslim climate. I'm surprised they were calling for her head (literally) but she shouldn't be allowed to teach for awhile until the whole thing dies down then.
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Point 1, see post 22.

Point 2, see post 18.
 
Could we just please prosecute the idiots who make terroristic threats in this country? (e.g., beheading the teacher, etc.) Don't send them to jail - just fine them $1000 each & put that money into education or something worthwhile.
 
Subyman said:
No the best quote, but teacher probably just pulled something random off the internet 5 mins before class like they do.
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More than likely, random things like that do tend to get picked up on and just blown out of proportion these days. Of course it could have been intentional for attention, but I seriously doubt that.

DrPizza said:
Could we just please prosecute the idiots who make terroristic threats in this country? (e.g., beheading the teacher, etc.) Don't send them to jail - just fine them $1000 each & put that money into education or something worthwhile.
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+1

SP33Demon said:
No, I don't read the toronto sun so I didn't see that. Well, that teacher should probably be given a paid LOA for doing something so stupid in such a hypersensitive muslim climate. I'm surprised they were calling for her head (literally) but she shouldn't be allowed to teach for awhile until the whole thing dies down then.
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Victorian Gray said:
Point 1, see post 22.

Point 2, see post 18.
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He does seem to not really read what others post in threads, in a rush to just start spewing things a lot of the time.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/12/17/3733679/arabic-calligraphy-school-closure/
 
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Thebobo said:
America can be pretty pathetic sometimes. The woman on the CNN video is so typical of what america is full of these days.

Support the teacher https://www.facebook.com/groups/204588599882934/
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The teacher probably didn't even know what that scribble said. The thing was just to try to copy the scribble that was displayed. nothing more. Parents are so fucking stupid these days, and any parent getting worked up over this should be eliminated along with their spawn.
 
KK said:
The teacher probably didn't even know what that scribble said. The thing was just to try to copy the scribble that was displayed. nothing more. Parents are so fucking stupid these days, and any parent getting worked up over this should be eliminated along with their spawn.
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You mean that Christian Fundies need to get over themselves?

As has been pointed out, it was just an exercise in the art of calligraphy. Students were not asked to translate it. It might as well have been a drawing of a dog or an assignment to copy this-

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But, of course, haters gotta have somebody to hate & muslim hate is the new black in right wing fashion.
 
Jhhnn said:
You mean that Christian Fundies need to get over themselves?

As has been pointed out, it was just an exercise in the art of calligraphy. Students were not asked to translate it. It might as well have been a drawing of a dog or an assignment to copy this-

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But, of course, haters gotta have somebody to hate & muslim hate is the new black in right wing fashion.
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No, I just said fucking stupid idiots. Don't put words in my mouth you douchebag.
 
KK said:
your parents?
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More like yo' momma.

You characterized the parents as stupid but I don't think that's true. I figure they have normal intelligence, hold down jobs, pay the bills, raise their kids, try to do it well like everybody else.

So why are they up in arms over something so silly? Because of what they've been taught to believe in. It's the same kind of cultural/religious nuttiness we see on the other side of the world over desecrating the Koran. It's about well cultivated fear & self righteousness, about having God on your side.
 
Victorian Gray said:
Indoctrination? Really?

"The calligraphy assignment came from a workbook created by teachers called "World Religions." It was not an assignment LaPorte made up herself. The instructions for the assignment said, "Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy."
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Context is everything. When taken in context it's a non-issue to me. Funny how the Catholics are all for keeping other religions out of the school but throw an absolute fit when their religious crap that has nothing to do with learning or the curriculum is taken out.

Granted in this day and age I would have put a different phrase in the curriculum just to avoid the idiots as this is harming the education process even though it shouldn't.
 
SP33Demon said:
They didn't close because of threats, they closed to convene on a solution for the problem with 20,000 angry parents putting pressure on them to either fire the teacher or remove that POS homework from the curriculum or both. This isn't a snap decision that can be made under that much pressure. The threats weren't the reason they closed.
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They can't fire the teacher for following the curriculum and using an assignment out of a workbook, surely approved by the board, that she didn't write....

If it was as simple as removing the homework assignment they would have done that long before closing the entire damn school for a day.
 
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