(November 2, 2014 at 1:38 am)mralstoner Wrote: La Plata High School claims they are just teaching world history, but a look at the homework assignment (below) shows it is propaganda.
They are teaching a whitewashed Disney version of Islam, not the ugly truth.
It's like teaching Nazism without the gas chambers.
I'd suggest taking reports from Fox News with a grain of salt.
First of all, do the written answers provide a complete depiction of what the school taught? Are the answers given there the only ones acceptable in the class? I doubt it, given that a lot of it is incomplete.
Secondly, the questions are non-judgmental. They ask for factual details about geography, history and culture without any inherent bias. The open-ended questions about internal conflicts, status of women and classes in society don't enforce a necessarily positive view. Any white-washing and disneyfication is apparent in the answers - not the questions - and you can't blame the school for that without establishing those answers as a comprehensive representation of what it teaches.
Third issue is the question of religion being taught in the school - except, teaching the motivating beliefs and culture is significant to a history class. I'd expect them to teach the values of Catholicism and how the Protestants and the Anglicans differed when teaching the history of Europe.
And lastly, why exactly was the father "banned"? How did he "object" to this homework assignment?
