Mosque Shock: School Rocked by Field Trip Vid of Kids Bowing to Allah | The Blaze
1. What are your thoughts on public school field trips to religious places?
2. Should parents be angry if their child chose to participate in praying to Allah?
To answer both questions; If I was a parent I would be pissed and call for the teacher's firing. The state has no right to pick my pocket to the collectivist claptrap of organized religion on my kid. Thats my job.
sold to parents as a history lesson
However, only male students were given the opportunity to participate — the female students and female chaperons had to watch from a distance:
Mosque Shock: School Rocked by Field Trip Vid of Kids Bowing to Allah | The Blaze
1. What are your thoughts on public school field trips to religious places?
2. Should parents be angry if their child chose to participate in praying to Allah?
I have no problem with field trips to religous sites. That's history. The problem is when they're asked or forced to participate in worship and/or preached to. That should be a decision made by the parent, not school officials or some other student's parent serving as a chaperone.
Kids don't need to go on public school field trips to learn about religious places. Or different religions. Does it make sense to take children to see snake handlers' religions first-hand? Wiccans? Forget the day trip and, instead, devote that time to learn about five different religions. Time wasted. The fact that the girls were segregated from the service is objectionable to me. I'd be mad as hell. Very poor judgement, imo.
All you need to know about the appropriateness of this field trip:
from the link:
Do parents still have to sign permission slips for field trips like they did when I was a kid?
Yep, the video in the article says that the parents were notified in a permission slip that it was to observe the midday prayer, and parents were invited to come too.
Only the men though.rof
Agreed.
Out of curiousity, do you agree that there should be no public prayer in school? If anyone is against what happened here it seems as though they should also be against prayer in school also.
As a parent and a former teacher I say "**** the field trips". Why can't johnny read? because he spends too much time going on these bull**** field trips. I always viewed field trips as primarily a way for lazy teachers to get out of the classroom and not have to actually teach for a day.
The last semester my two youngest kids were in public school (we home school now) between the two of them they spent at least 20 days out of the classroom on "field trips". they went to the freakin zoo, they went to see plays at the local theater, they went to every single freakin museum within a 100 mile radius. Hell, they even spent a day at the freakin "cook's pest control museum of natural science" looking at all the varieties of **** roaches.
As for this particular field trip, I have only one question. Anyone care to speculate on the amount of hell that would be being raised if it had been muslim kids taken to a catholic church and "given the opportunity" to attend mass?
Women weren't allowed to come to the mosque?
sold to parents as a history lesson
However, only male students were given the opportunity to participate — the female students and female chaperons had to watch from a distance:
see post #8
From the article
So post #16 is inaccurate, then.
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