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Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.
“It really caught me off guard,” a Farmville Central High School student who was in the class told me. “If we are not allowed to talk about any other religions in school – how is this appropriate?”
The Islamic vocabulary worksheet was assigned to seniors.
“I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the student told me. “I just looked at it and knew something was not right – so I emailed the pages to my mom.”
“In the following exercises, you will have the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by reading about Muhammad and the Islamic word,” the worksheet read.
The lesson used words like astute, conducive, erratic, mosque, pastoral, and zenith in sentences about the Islamic faith.
“The zenith of any Muslim’s life is a trip to Mecca,” one sentence read. For “erratic,” the lesson included this statement: “The responses to Muhammad’s teachings were at first erratic. Some people responded favorably, while other resisted his claim that ‘there is no God but Allah and Muhammad his Prophet.”
Another section required students to complete a sentence:
“There are such vast numbers of people who are anxious to spread the Muslim faith that it would be impossible to give a(n)___ amount.”
Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.
“It really caught me off guard,” a Farmville Central High School student who was in the class told me. “If we are not allowed to talk about any other religions in school – how is this appropriate?”
The Islamic vocabulary worksheet was assigned to seniors.
“I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the student told me. “I just looked at it and knew something was not right – so I emailed the pages to my mom.”
“In the following exercises, you will have the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by reading about Muhammad and the Islamic word,” the worksheet read.
The lesson used words like astute, conducive, erratic, mosque, pastoral, and zenith in sentences about the Islamic faith.
“The zenith of any Muslim’s life is a trip to Mecca,” one sentence read. For “erratic,” the lesson included this statement: “The responses to Muhammad’s teachings were at first erratic. Some people responded favorably, while other resisted his claim that ‘there is no God but Allah and Muhammad his Prophet.”
Another section required students to complete a sentence:
“There are such vast numbers of people who are anxious to spread the Muslim faith that it would be impossible to give a(n)___ amount.”
High School Islamic vocabulary lesson part of Common Core standards Fox News
If those are the standards of our schools, I am willing to call our education dead. Even being extremely eager to understand the necessity to study certain vocabulary, I still cannot see why the school needed to choose the method listed. Why do we even need to bind our education with religion? Especially when it’s not religion studies…
And considering the other stories here... it's hard to escape the conclusion.
In a class about world literature that exposes students to writings from many different cultures andnfaiths? The horror!
Solution: don't send your kids to school cons. The Bible's the only education they'll ever need.
In a class about world literature that exposes students to writings from many different cultures andnfaiths? The horror!
Solution: don't send your kids to school cons. The Bible's the only education they'll ever need.
No government schools. Private, Charter or home-school.
They always leave out Adam's first wife that left him....Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that they left out the part about Eisha, one of Muhammad's wives/pets, who was only six-years-old, which is pretty fucked-up, even by medieval standards.
Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.
“It really caught me off guard,” a Farmville Central High School student who was in the class told me. “If we are not allowed to talk about any other religions in school – how is this appropriate?”
The Islamic vocabulary worksheet was assigned to seniors.
“I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the student told me. “I just looked at it and knew something was not right – so I emailed the pages to my mom.”
“In the following exercises, you will have the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by reading about Muhammad and the Islamic word,” the worksheet read.
The lesson used words like astute, conducive, erratic, mosque, pastoral, and zenith in sentences about the Islamic faith.
“The zenith of any Muslim’s life is a trip to Mecca,” one sentence read. For “erratic,” the lesson included this statement: “The responses to Muhammad’s teachings were at first erratic. Some people responded favorably, while other resisted his claim that ‘there is no God but Allah and Muhammad his Prophet.”
Another section required students to complete a sentence:
“There are such vast numbers of people who are anxious to spread the Muslim faith that it would be impossible to give a(n)___ amount.”
High School Islamic vocabulary lesson part of Common Core standards Fox News
If those are the standards of our schools, I am willing to call our education dead. Even being extremely eager to understand the necessity to study certain vocabulary, I still cannot see why the school needed to choose the method listed. Why do we even need to bind our education with religion? Especially when it’s not religion studies…
And considering the other stories here... it's hard to escape the conclusion.
I do not see the problem in learning about other cultures, I believe it supports more well rounded thinkers in our community and allows people to become open minded and therefore able to think on different fronts.
"Few"?I think you mean Muslims and I doubt learning a small portion of Islam in a lit class will turn children into Muslim extremists. Almost all Muslims are kind and devout people it's just the few extremists that give them a bad name.
I think you mean Muslims and I doubt learning a small portion of Islam in a lit class will turn children into Muslim extremists. Almost all Muslims are kind and devout people it's just the few extremists that give them a bad name.
Only you said that Matthew.So you think people should do the things islamis do??? Not all things are good.
Several hundred million Muslims believe in killing those who leave Islam.
