Christmas break came early for the students in the Staunton, Virgina school district when their classes were canceled due to the controversy surrounding the Islamic calligraphy lessons given to the ninth grade World Geography class. As reported by Truth and Action, the “district closed schools the Friday before Christmas holiday as the media covered the complaints regarding the assignment, resulting in an onslaught of phone calls and emails. An increased police presence was felt necessary, as well as the closure, as some of the tweets and emails raised concern.”
More has been uncovered since the original story about the forced writing of the shahada-the Islamic statement of faith took place.
Not only were the students forced to practice Islamic calligraphy, that said, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”, but the Koran was circulated and girls were forced to put on a hijab and photographed for the yearbook, as well. One student in particular refused the headdress but ultimately felt forced to comply.
The teacher, Cheryl LaPorte, and the district seem to have no qualms regarding the one-sided exercise in religion and claim it lines up with state standards.
No where in the lesson were other religions, that are part of the Arab culture, brought in; nor did LaPorte pass around a Bible or Torah as a comparative pieces of literature.
The Virginia Department of Education curriculum framework for the World Geography lessons demonstrate that LaPorte’s Islamic indoctrination is not compliant with state standards.
Read about the standards on page two and evaluate for oneself LaPorte’s subversive intentions.
It’s masked under common core, you people need to realize teachers do what their districts tell them to do, not what you parents have to say. If YOU don’t like it, vote out Common Core. AZ did and we don’t have these issues. Pull up your boot straps and march into your local district with a petition to boot out Common Core. This is HOW ISIS is getting a hold on your kids, by brain washing them into stupidity. Home school for crying out loud.
She’s only teaching them what your district tells the teachers to teach. Open your eyes, its not the teacher!!! It’s the Common CORE c**p from Obama. If you love your kids you will stop common core and stop blaming teachers.
It’s all masked under COMMON CORE direct from the American CONTACT OBAMA. You have to vote it out. If not your kids will be lost, because it teaches our kids America is bad, we are a bad nation and we did bad things to those innocent people in all the countries we joined to help end wars. IF you want to tell your veterans we the USA are bad people for those wars, I will not watch. Teachers have their hands tied, they can’t NOT teach what the district says to teach.
Pull your kids out of the school and enroll them to an online school program they can learn from home!!!
I would NEVER let my kids go to a school that teaches this C**p!!!!! Online schooling is so much Better!!!
Fire her ass
Oh hell no. I would sue her and the school. If there’s no religion in school it means all religions.
Go protest at that collage
She even LOOKS like an idiot!
what she did not violate the constitution. she can do that just like a christan teacher can hand out bibles and do just what that teacher did.