S.C.O.T.U.S. SAYS NO TO PARENTS SUITS

Students Wear Islam Dress For Class

NYSSA, Ore. -- Officials at a public school in Oregon are defending a seventh-grade social studies unit on Islam that included students dressing in traditional Islamic dress.

Kendlee Garner of Nyssa told the Ontario Argus Observer that she objected to the amount of time dedicated to the unit on Islam -- four weeks -- as well as the wearing of religious garb and the lack of parental notification. She said her son told her about the activity, and when she objected, he got an alternate assignment in the library.

Nyssa school officials respond that teaching about Islam is not promoting the religion. Superintendent Don Grotting said it's part of meeting state standards that call for students to "understand the importance of the rise of Islam and its interaction with Europe."

So which genius in the Department of Education has set up these "standards"?!?
Are they flowing down from Federal requirements?!?

Supreme Court Declines Islam Class Case

The Supreme Court has refused to consider a lawsuit by parents objecting to a three-week class for seventh-graders on Islam.

Jonas and Tiffany Eklund said pupils at a public school in Byron, Calif., were given pages from the opening chapter of the Quran to read and studied Islam's Five Pillars of Faith.

The Eklunds argued that the world history unit violated separation of church and state. Their lawyers charged that the public school "had children become Muslims for three weeks."

School Superintendent Tom Meyer denied that the classes amounted to indoctrination.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the Islam program activities were not overt religious exercises and therefore did not raise constitutional concerns.

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