{"id":26479,"date":"2015-09-10T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:18:26","slug":"what-did-you-learn-in-school-today-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26479","title":{"rendered":"What Did You Learn In School Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart.com<\/a> posted a story today about 7th grade students in Tennessee<\/a> who were required to write and recite “Allah<\/a> is the only god” as part of a world history project. Can you imagine the uproar if they had been required to write “Jesus is Lord<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Another mother of a seventh-grade girl, Brandee Porterfield, complained to officials at Spring Hill Middle School<\/a> because of its overemphasis on Islam to the exclusion of Christianity<\/a> and Judaism<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Porterfield said she has no objections to her daughter learning details of the Islamic religion<\/a>, but she objects to the fact that the history unit didn\u2019t devote similar time to Christianity or Judaism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt really did bother me that they skipped the whole chapter on the rise of Christianity and they spent three weeks just studying Islam,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Porterfield and other parents were also concerned with the school\u2019s decision to have children write and recite the Islamic creed<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut what really did bother me,\u201d Porterfield said, \u201cwas that they did this assignment where they wrote out the Five Pillars of Islam<\/a>, including having the children learn and write the Shahada, which is the Islamic conversion creed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke with the teacher and the principal,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are not going to learn any other religion, doctrines or creeds and they are not going back over this chapter. Even though they discuss Christianity a little bit during the Middle Ages<\/a>, they are not ever going to have this basis for Judaism or Christianity later.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes the explanation of the Maury County<\/a> Director of Schools:<\/p>\n

Maury County Director of Schools, Chris Marczak, defended the curriculum in a statement, saying that the school system is in no way endorsing Islam over other religions or trying to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our job as a public school system to educate our students on world history in order to be ready to compete in a global society, not to endorse one religion over another or indoctrinate,\u201d Marczak said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope Mr. Marcazk\u00a0is an elected official that can be voted out of office. I have no problem with the students studying Islam, but reciting the creed is over the top. Just for the record, there are actually Six Pillars\u00a0of Islam. The sixth is jihad. Somehow I suspect that was not mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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