First Amendment: By Removing Display, Kansas School Surrenders to Ignorance
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By Charles C. Haynes
KANSAS---Back to school means back to culture wars for Minneha Core Knowledge Elementary School in Wichita, Kan. Bulletin boards can and should feature temporary displays about what students are studying in the classroom about religions. On the very first day of school, someone snapped a photo of a bulletin board display in the hallway featuring the Five Pillars of Islam and then posted it on Facebook. Islamophobia is a cottage industry on the Internet. School officials were immediately inundated with complaints from gullible and misinformed people who apparently believe the canard that public schools indoctrinate kids in Islam — and persecute Christians. I wish I could report that Minneha administrators faced down the Facebook smears and courageously defended their bulletin board display. But sadly, the school surrendered to ignorance and fear and removed the Five Pillars of Islam display — ostensibly to “alleviate the distraction.” [link]
By Charles C. Haynes
KANSAS---Back to school means back to culture wars for Minneha Core Knowledge Elementary School in Wichita, Kan. Bulletin boards can and should feature temporary displays about what students are studying in the classroom about religions. On the very first day of school, someone snapped a photo of a bulletin board display in the hallway featuring the Five Pillars of Islam and then posted it on Facebook. Islamophobia is a cottage industry on the Internet. School officials were immediately inundated with complaints from gullible and misinformed people who apparently believe the canard that public schools indoctrinate kids in Islam — and persecute Christians. I wish I could report that Minneha administrators faced down the Facebook smears and courageously defended their bulletin board display. But sadly, the school surrendered to ignorance and fear and removed the Five Pillars of Islam display — ostensibly to “alleviate the distraction.” [link]
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