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So why is the ACLU not having fits about this?

ANN ARBOR, MI — On Wednesday, October 19, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, will hear oral arguments in Eklund v. Byron Union School District. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represents several parents and children who challenged the Byron Union School District’s practice of teaching twelve-year-old students “to become Muslims.”

For three weeks, impressionable twelve-year-old students were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups, took Islamic names, wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the Star and Crescent Moon, which is the symbol of Muslims, were handed materials that instructed them to “Remember Allah always so that you may prosper,” completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting, and memorized and recited the “Bismillah” or “In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate,” which students also wrote on banners that were hung on the classroom walls.

A federal district court judge in San Francisco had previously determined that the school district had not violated the constitution.

According to Richard Thompson, Chief Counsel of the Law Center, “There is a double-standard at play in this case. If the students had done similar activities in a class on Christianity, a constitutional violation would surely have been found. If the public school’s practice is upheld on appeal, all public schools should begin teaching classes on Christianity in the same manner as the Islam class was taught in this case.”

We all know the answer to that, yes? That the ACLU has no real interest in defending rights, just pushing their agenda, of course. But here’s what I want to know.

Where are the parents? How is it that this nonsense went on for three weeks without parents stopping it? You know, as much as I like to bash the educational system, the parents have to bear some responsibility for their children’s education. So sure, the ACLU gets a big thumbs-down, as does the educational system, but so do the parents here.

Come on, folks, if you send your kids to public schools, stay on top of what they’re having your kids do there. What’s so hard about that?

H/T to Stop the ACLU.

This entry was posted by rightwingprof on October 18, 2005 at 5:04 pm under Education, Conservatism, Politics. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Comments

  1. jimmyb says:

    The double standard here is appalling.
    My daughter is in college now.
    I still keep an eye on what she’s learning…

    October 18, 2005, 7:23 pm

  2. Pam says:

    What the hell is this crap? If the school had a program about “Let’s all be Christians” or “Let’s all be Jews,” the ACLU would be first on the firing line. What a disgrace.

    October 19, 2005, 10:33 am

  3. BlogMeister USA says:

    Your Child Too Can Learn to be a Muslim!

    Question: if the program was about being either Christian or Jewish, how quickly would the ACLU and other civil rights groups be decrying the practice?

    October 19, 2005, 10:47 am

  4. GunnNutt says:

    I wouldn’t be at all opposed to this curricula if they also immersed the students in the other major religions. I have a suspicion that was not part of the lesson plan.

    October 20, 2005, 6:26 pm