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I don't see it, from an educational perspective they're still learning about a subject that contains inequality.
Is it your belief that the purpose of this field trip was to teach about inequality?
:lol: there's that women's equal rights we all know and love from the left. :thumbs:
Is it your belief that the purpose of this field trip was to teach about inequality?
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Separate and unequal.
It's my understanding that there are only 30% or so of mosques in America where men and women are allowed to pray together.
.Others, women must pray in another area or behind a partition. I doubt these areas are equal to the areas the men are praying in.
1stly. How would they be... 'unequal' have you ever been in a mosque. What? Would the carpet be a little less colorful, a little more wrinkly where they pray.?
2ndly. The purpose of separating men and women is to prevent sexual thoughts by men in the house of 'god'.
But Im sure they're separating them because they hate women and want everyone to know it.
We get a blanket form at the beginning of every school year asking if our child has permission to go on field trips throughout the year. There are no individual slips for each trip after that.
really, who cares? it's their religion, and as far as i know barb is being forced to join. and yes, i think some muslims DO hate women. but so do some baptists.
By that logic, American schools shouldn't teach anything about Catholicism, Mormonism, Apartheid, Jim Crowe, and pre-sufferage American History. or any other time and place in history when people haven't been equal.
Nope, but it was to teach about Islam, which is inherently inequal.
I would never sign that.
Well, it comes down to this Tucker. Do you trust your kids' school or not? I'm fairly trusting of our school system, and if I weren't, we wouldn't be here. However I don't trust anything 100%, so I volunteer at the school and keep active. I make it a point to know what's going on. Even if a parent doesn't have the time to dedicate to volunteering, you have to stay in the loop by talking to other parents often. Most of my friends have kids who've BTDT the year before mine, so I know what's coming and what isn't. I feel pretty confident when I sign the blanket permission slip that there will be no surprise field trips. But if there ever were, I'd know about it before my son got near a bus.
I don't get why a public school needs to teach about Islam when less than 1% of the US population is Muslim (assuming we're talking about the US here). There are far more important subjects IMO.
Why would the US population of Muslims matter when teaching something like world religions? The fact that it's the #2 religion in the world would indicate that the kids should know something about it.
I agree. But I live in Chicago.... There's no way I would trust my kid's school. Which is why I'd never sign that kind of slip. :lol:
Why is it important when religion is not taught? Frankly, I think it's just some PC BS. If Christianity and Judaism isn't taught in public schools, why the heck should Islam?
Why is it important when religion is not taught? Frankly, I think it's just some PC BS. If Christianity and Judaism isn't taught in public schools, why the heck should Islam?
I believe world religions are taught in most schools. The cultures, traditions, and practices, not the ideology.
Their is a difference between teaching history and teaching religion.
what about YOUR thoughts, mellie?
There is a difference between teaching about religions in general (their general history, general traditions, about their existance in general) and teaching THE religion. Obviously the latter shouldn't be done. And the former should only be done in context, but I do think the former *should* be done to some extent. In addition to that, teaching *about* religions in general could go into even more detail in a class specifically designed for it. (such as the mythology classes I elected to take in high school)
Teaching A religion shouldn't be done in public schools, but teaching about them, their history, their traditions, and their effects on the world should be done, IMO.
I believe world religions are taught in most schools. The cultures, traditions, and practices, not the ideology.
I honestly do not ever recall any mention of religion in any public school I attended. I just don't see it as a necessary part of the cirriculum. :shrug: That's my job as a parent. I mean, why not discuss ghosts too?
Reading issues?
I honestly do not ever recall any mention of religion in any public school I attended. I just don't see it as a necessary part of the cirriculum. :shrug: That's my job as a parent. I mean, why not discuss ghosts too?
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