All schools shut down in Augusta County, Virginia, over.
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every.
The Internet is again blowing up, this time over a generated controversy regarding a lesson on the Arabic language from a World Religions textbook at Riverheads High School.
Va. county shuts down schools after backlash to Islam homework. a teacher at Riverheads High School had students in her class complete an assignment one week ago.. office to ask why the.
When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton rolled around to the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy. It read: “Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand.
Virginia County Shut Down All Schools Over Islam Homework. After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
The assignment, handed out to Riverheads High School in Staunton, was part of a broader unit on major world religions and asked students to copy Islamic religious calligraphy, CNN reported.
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as.