Even though LaPorte’s actions were not considered a violation by the authorities, the local sheriff recommended that the school system close operations on Friday as a way to calm down the wave of calls and emails received due to the controversy the case has stirred, the local daily said. Neither district Superintendent Eric Bond nor members of the school board answered questions about whether or not they found the Muslim pledge appropriate for the public school classroom, MSN reports.
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The school district said in its statement that students would continue to learn about world religions as required by the state but a non-religious sample of Arabic writing would be used in the future.
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When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton was on the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy.
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The students were not asked to translate or recite the statement, but some reportedly became upset when they learned what it translated to.
Some messages to the Virginia school district contained profane and graphic content, including a call to behead the teacher who gave the assignment, Augusta County Sheriff Randy Fisher said.
Extracurricular activities on Thursday and through the weekend were also canceled for the district’s approximately 10,000 students.
Outrage over “Islamic indoctrination” of students by a homework assignment led to the closing of 24 schools in Virginia on Friday, but Augusta County district officials said no specific threat was made.
Thousands of students have been forced to stay at home after a geography assignment in which pupils copied an Arabic statement as part of a calligraphy lesson sparked a furious response from parents.
Dad or mum Kimberly Herndon was infuriated when her son got here residence with the task sheet from Mr LaPorte’s world geography class.
Students will also do a similar exercise when they study China.
“The calligraphy assignment at Riverheads High appears to have been taken from a locally selected or developed resource”, she said.
Some parents complained that the assignment amounted to religious indoctrination. “She gave it up and gave it to Mohammed”, she said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of parents in Augusta Country have gathered at a public forum on Tuesday to express their anger over LaPorte’s lesson.
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“As a community, it is up to us to defend a teacher who is not in the wrong and deserves our support as she supported a great number of us through our high school years”, posted former student Grace Zimmerman.
