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Common Core promoting Islam!!!!

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The opinion piece in question reads like a complete load, btw.

The anonymous"parent" gave very specific step-by-step descriptions of what allegedly happened in the classroom. Now, assuming the parent wasn't there, that means they got a detailed description, including quotes from the teacher, verbatim from the third-grade kid.

Kid's got quite the remarkable memory and an eye for detail, dontcha think? Must be a G&T program.

And why is the parent requesting anonymity? Fear of reprisal? From whom? The school? other parents? Wouldn't you want it known which class, and which teacher, was involved in this, so that other parents would ask their kids what happened in the class?

And isn't it a wonderful coincidence that this kid just so happened to hold on to his paper against the teacher's alleged instructions, just as the first one allegedly did, to show to a parent who was set out from the beginning to vindicate the first child's story -- and in so doing, vindicating the author as well?

And isn't it remarkably convenient that not only did the image have the website on it, but, being printed directly from the web (as the "page 1 of 1" on the top indicates), would have the exact url printed out on the bottom? Assuming of course that the teacher didn't change the print settings on the computer -- of course, nothing about the "handout" indicates a high level of computer literacy on the part of the owner...

And why is there no mention of the second parent confronting either the teacher or the principal? Seems like he/she went straight to Mr. Starnes with their story -- who has every reason to believe it, but no power to do anything constructive about it.

The whole thing smells like a McMartin case in the making...
 
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Is the school indoctrinating islam into your children, or are you too dang lazy to teach your kids anything and decide to depend entirely on the school to do it? That is bad parenting in my opinion. If they become muslim converts under your nose it is your failure as a parent and not the schools fault. Obviously you are weak in the faith by word and practice for your children to be enticed into another faith so easily.
 
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And if the latest story is as fishy as it smells, it's a poor Christian example to be setting.... actually, it's a poor example in general; I know how some people get testy when I, of all people, have to remind certain Christians to act more Christian.
 
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If they become muslim converts under your nose it is your failure as a parent and not the schools fault.



I understand what you're saying here, but I wonder how asking a few vocabulary questions relating to Islam is going entice anybody to convert?
 
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I understand what you're saying here, but I wonder how asking a few vocabulary questions relating to Islam is going entice anybody to convert?

It's not -- but the fear of enticement is what rules the day here.

We've long since moved away from the facts and into the hysteria -- like I said, it's McMartin all over again, unless cooler, wiser heads steer us away from that path.
 
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I understand what you're saying here, but I wonder how asking a few vocabulary questions relating to Islam is going entice anybody to convert?

If they are converted from a few phrases that is a huge example of bad parenting. What we should be asking is why are parents afraid to parent their children? The failure of the family core is a problem of america, most evident when people complain about the schools doing a poor job of something they shouldn't be totally depending upon them to do anyhow.
 
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Useless.

A link to a news story in which a teacher exposed students to numerous religions and one of them happened to be Islam. And the teacher included material expressing the basic concepts of Islam.

Didn't call the students to prayer. Didn't ask the students to abandon their own religion and worship Allah. So that was evidence of what?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

You moved the goal posts completely away from the OP and making bad attempts by mentioning radical Islam combined with links to superficial nonsense. Namely the parent in the linked article is nothing more than an intellectual coward.

I'm done here. This thread is utter garbage.
 
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Amen!
 
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PROTIP: No school -- least of all a public school -- is going to shell out the kind of exorbitant expense to use a color copier for student handouts.

In my day we got prints off a spirit duplicator and we were lucky to have that!
 
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Didn't call the students to prayer. Didn't ask the students to abandon their own religion and worship Allah.

That was never the charge.

So that was evidence of what?

An old tactic. By equating all religions you diminish the value of certain religions in the very places they are most practiced. It also foments sympathy, so that when someone attempts to address flaws in and perversions of that religion others respond with hostility, slander, and insult. As has happened here.

You moved the goal posts completely away from the OP and making bad attempts by mentioning radical Islam combined with links to superficial nonsense.

Which you have refused to even attempt to refute, other than to sling mud.
 
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I'll delve into the garbage again.

That was absolutely the charge of the OP. That Common Core was promoting Islam. Given that neither you nor the author of the OP was able to provide a single example of Common Core "promoting" Islam than you are wrong.

Either you have actual evidence regarding the OP or you don't. It's that simple. Nothing you have linked so far is proof of anything.

Except for certain prejudices.
 
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QFT
 
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Evidence? C'mon, you saw the scales. She weighs the same as a duck.
 
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How does that work exactly? How does presenting some of the core tenets of Islam translate into Christianity having a diminished value?
 
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