Con dad threatens sh*tstorm if daughters world history class includes Islam

Ancient history classes can't mention ISLAM? If they can mention Christianity and Catholicism and Church of England and any other driving religious influences WHY IN THE HELL wouldn't they be able mention that ISLAM was a party of middle-east history?? This FATHER and buffoon has been watching too much FOX. I hope she is smarter than her dad.



Conservative dad threatens ‘sh*tstorm’ if daughter’s world history class includes Islam
David Ferguson DAVID FERGUSON

28 OCT 2014 AT 13:52 ET


An angry father has been banned from a Maryland high school’s campus after he made vague but ominous threats against the school because his daughter’s history homework mentioned the Islamic faith.

BayNet.com reported that La Plata High School in Charles County, Maryland has issued a No Trespass order after parent Kevin Wood — a former U.S. Marine — called the school and threatened to disrupt classes if his daughter’s world history class continued to study the religion and its impact on human history.

Wood reportedly telephoned Vice Principal Shannon Morris last Thursday enraged over a homework assignment which dealt with the formation of Middle Eastern empires centuries ago. History teacher Katie O’Malley Simpson said that the history curriculum has never been considered controversial in the past.

“The assignment has been given for years,” O’Malley-Simpson said.

La Plata High School Principal Evelyn Arnold issued a No Trespass order against Wood after hearing about the contentious call, in which Wood promised to come to the school and disrupt classes if Islam was mentioned any further.

O’Malley-Simpson called the decision to ban Wood from campus “unusual,” saying, “We don’t file no trespassing charges lightly. We would only do that when we feel someone has threatened the safety of staff and students.”

According to Maryland Gazette.net, O’Malley-Simpson said, “We have a lot of students, and safety comes first. We don’t allow disruptions at the schools, especially if we’re forewarned of them.”

Charles County School District Superintendent Kimberly Hill met with Wood and his wife to discuss their concerns on Monday. The couple reportedly asked the school to excuse their daughter from world history class for the duration of the segment studying Islam.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/...daughters-world-history-class-includes-islam/

 

Does he have a gun? If not then what is the problem?

 

Pissed off daddies are allowed to wander around school campuses?? Really?

 

Evidently not but they are allowed to pull their children from classes they disagree with. Even if it is extremely stupid rational. I just thank gawd he didn't have a gun.

 

Anyone that wants selective history taught or is a book burner has zero credibility and I would dare him to do his worst, we cannot bow down to the rabble and extremists, nce we do we have already lost all credibility when it comes to education.

 

Are rawstory or OP going to tell us about the very real controversy over partially islamic owned textbook companies' pro Islam bias in textbooks used in the US? Are they going to tell us of textbooks that have entire chapters on Islam and no chapters on Christianity or Judaism? Are they going to tell us of textbooks and curricula making 9/11 appear to be the US fault, and downplaying muslim extremism? Of course not, doesn't fit the narrative. Are they going to post or link the actual material that offended the father in question? No. Why not? Should be easy to get. Until I see context, this story, as everything from rawstory and this OP, is just more leftist hot air. Maybe the guy is unhinged and unreasonable, maybe he has a legitimate beef. No way to know given this OP and the source they choose.

EDIT: from looking at other articles, it appears the man made no threats at all, merely told an administrator to take that paper and shove it. Already the truth starts to come out and the leftist lie narrative begins to unravel.

 

Does the class include the study of Christianity?

 

I agree, sounds like there's more to the story. Like history textbooks that change what the 2nd amendment says to push a narrative and agenda. I have spent 12 years teaching history/social studies.... there are good textbooks, and bad textbooks that I have no say in which ones we use.little things... subtle things, like the 2nd amendment being reworded.


Now, with that all said... I support teaching Islam in history, and Judaism, and Christianity.... and I support teaching about misc religions in areas when they are important to the development of the area. Understanding why it was created, when, and their beliefs is important, even if you don't agree with them.


There is a huge difference in teaching about Islam, and recruitting for Islam, and from preaching an Islamic sermon. As long as all get equal playing time in the class.... I'm good with Islam being taught.

 

PROBABLY!

 

cuz stereotyping is ok when it's a liberal doing it?

 

Texas BORN AGAINS sit on a textbook review board. They edit material for every schoolbook in the country. Yes, TEXAS!

 

Thanks for reminding me. Just so you know Many Texans are not happy with that situation, eventually it will come back around to haunt the Repubs here and Texas will once again be back to it's normal state of affairs, Blue, Conservative Blue but still Blue.

 

Wow, another Fox News mention. I think we've seen enough to alert that news agency that there's a person out there posting serious hate speech and should be closely monitered. The FBI would have a field day reading your obsession.

 

There is more to the story. There are quotes from the daughter's textbook floating around in news articles; quotes that are more than just historically informative like what the OP is alluding to. These quotes include Islamic prayer, and prayers in schools are forbidden. Isn't that right, liberals?

 

I really hope this doesn't turn out to be the next school shooting.

 

Wow, what a fascist thing to say. Why don't you spit on the American flag while you're at it, Mussolini?

 

Same here...... education is a good thing about ALL things. Islam is one of the world's major religions and the more a person knows about it, the better off they are, whether they like the religion or not.

This dad needs to understand that just b/c his daughter is studying Islam in school, doesn't mean she's going to convert to it......

When my kids were in school, if there was anything they showed some curiousity about, told them to research it, learn all about it and that even included witchcraft when one of my girls questioned it.....

Knowledge is power.......

 

Won't matter to them. They're like sharks in the water feeding on stories like this all day every day.

 

Thanks.....should have known 'picturetaker' had blown this out of proportion.......

 

Sounds like the father blew it out of proportion.

 

The school Gestapo's O’Malley-Simpson says - " In the Middle East, Islam is the only religion and it contributes greatly to the economics of the region.”. But the rest of us know that, that isn't history. There have been christians and Jews there the whole time but I guess the school doesn't want to mention the hell the christians and Jews have been through.

We better call the la Plata school and remind them that they are wrong and to get their s**t straight. 301-934-1100

 

Please!! This thread involves a whole lot more than STEREOTYPING lib/cons. That is a simplistic and dangerous take on this story.
A grown man threatening his child's school?? Over 'RELIGION' being mentioned in a WORLD HISTORY class? Hellooooooo...

 

I had a friend about 20 YEARS AGO who was a school book salesman for Rand or Houghton--I've forgotten which! He mentioned TEXAS as driving the school textbook industry. Dumbass me thought it was because it was then the 3rd or 4th largest state in population. That was 'logical', right?? I didn't even delve into his statement back then Little did I know!! Now I do.

Wasn't it some seriously 'RW' dentist that drove the RELIGIOUS REWRITES and agenda for along time?? And I think I read he was finally unseated??

 

Creationists determining which textbooks schools can use, are exactly what Sanskrit is concerned about, provided you substitute Islam for Creationism. And he's got a good point - history is easy to slant. It's a truism that history is written by the winners, for example. And you could probably select a couple thousand people at random across the US and get a wide range of opinions as to whether any given historical presentation is biased. In the home schooling world, at least in the South, we have "American History" according to David Barton, whose sermons (disguised as textbooks) don't even wink in the direction of historical accuracy in his zeal to insert his religious fervor where it does not exist. He'd be a generic nutjob except he is former vice-chairman of the Republican Party in Texas, and influential.

The legal principle in the US is that it's perfectly acceptable to teach ABOUT any religion, but illegal to state or even imply that any religion is true or possesses Truth. But the sort of slant Sanskrit is talking about blurs this line. Is it or is it not slanted to present a brief biography of Mohammed? Alas, given some considerable doubt that Mohammed ever existed at all, any effort at biography is necessary a slant of some sort. Not to mention that there are lots of different tales of Mohammed. How can a brief biography select among them without introducing a bias?

Conversely, the historical spread of Islam is well documented and not necessarily biased. I say "not necessarily" because the Battle of Tours is hard NOT to describe as a great victory or a great defeat, depending on whose side you favor. Not a simple issue.

But I would nonetheless argue that it's perverse to deny your children all knowledge that other religions exist, even if you dislike them.

 

This is FOX NEWS' local station and the guy appears (even SOFT PEDALED by FOX) caused a disruption. The school unequivocally denies teaching religion!

A PLATA, Md. - FOX 5
A father and military veteran says he has been banned from a Charles County high school because he got into an argument with faculty over his child's homework assignment.

Kevin Wood received his no trespassing order on Tuesday. This all stems from a run-in between Wood and the vice principal at his daughter's school.

He says he challenged a history class assignment that had students list the benefits of Islam.

The school says Wood crossed the line and threatened the vice principal.

Both sides are talking, but they have very different versions of this assignment and the fallout that followed.

"A lot of people do not understand where my husband is coming from,” said Melissa Wood.

Melissa says her husband Kevin, a United States Marine and Iraq veteran, is the most patriotic person she has met. But now, he is banned from even stepping foot near their daughter's high school.

"I don't force my religious views on them, so don't force your religious views on me," Kevin told us.

This started when their eleventh grader came home from La Plata High School with a three-page assignment. It asked for explanations of Islam's Five Pillars, Mecca and Muhammad.

Kevin and Melissa didn't like it and feel religion should not be taught in public schools. They say Islam should not get priority over Judaism or Christianity.

"We cannot discuss our Ten Commandments in school, but they can discuss Islam's Five Pillars?" said Melissa.

Kevin went to the school to talk with a vice principal, but things got heated. Kevin would end up getting slapped with a notice banning him from the school property.

"I have witnesses that have said I did not threaten anybody in any way shape or form,” said Kevin.

"He was threatening to cause a disruption or possible disruption at the school,” said Katie O'Malley-Simpson, spokesperson for Charles County Public Schools.

She says the high school was in its rights to ban Kevin from school property. They also that defended the assignment on Islam and say his objections are off base.

"We're not teaching religion,” said O'Malley-Simpson. “We're teaching world history.”

"None of us parents knew about this and they didn't tell anybody,” Kevin said.