Taxpayers of New York...do you want an Arab school in your back yard?

Question

Here is the link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251883,00.html

Here is a short summary. There is an Arab school opening in Brooklyn that is supoosed to help reduce the ignorance of the Arab people...or something like that(I gathered this from watching Hannity and Colmes)

But my question is, since they have not made it clear what will be taught there, who will teach, and which books will be used...how will we know what is really going to be done there?

The tax payers will be paying for part of the school...they, according to the interview on Hannity and Colmes, will have a religious board. Isn't that a seperation of church and state?

Also, if they really want to reduce the ignorance of the Arab culture why don't they just offer a course about Middle Eastern culture in public schools already open?

I do not see how letting a hundred students(at max) go to a school dedicated specifically to the Arab culture will help reduce the ignorance.

This question is not supposed to be offensive to Arabs, because I know a lot of persecution has and is going on because of 9/11 and the war and stuff going on in the middle east...

But I am asking this because I do not think tax payers should have to pay for a school dedicated to this...I just hope they don't get caught teaching anything religious(besides a theology class) because then it will just be a bigger issue than it already is.

Also, here is a link from a group oppossed to the madrassa(the school) from opening...

http://stopthemadrassa.wordpress.com/

I would offer a link to a pro-madrassa school site, but I can't find one.

steel rain, show me one place where I said it was a muslim school....

oh wait, I didn't... I didn't twist the story.

To steelrain's edit. I am not whining because they're learning about Arabs.

I am concerned that they are opening a school that is all about the Arab people and they will not give any details about the school when it is set to be open in September. I read the topic and I watched the interview.

Couldn't they, instead of opening an Arab school, just have courses about Arab people in the public schools? I have courses about british history and would history, but it does not mean my school system is going to open a school just to learn about the UK or everything that happened in the world.

Answer 1

Religious schools are fine, as long as my tax dollars aren't paying for it.

I wonder if this will make Christians realize how us atheists feel when Christian schools are paid for by tax dollars.

Answer 2

You are really messing up the story. It says arabic language and culture will be taught. Not Islam. Theres a difference, and you need to know it.


Actually read the topic before you start whining like a kid. They offer spanish, french, russian, and chinese at my school... whats wrong with arabic as well?

Answer 3

l don't support tax dollars going to religious institutions or schools, period.

Separation of church and state...It's what separates the U.S. from Saudi Arabia.

Answer 4

What could bother you about a school that will offer Arabic language and culture?

Answer 5

Why is this any different from private Christian/Catholic schools? Its not. And yes taxpayer money is used to help pay for them too - but I think its a lesser amount than public schools.

Answer 6

If the TAX PAYERS are paying for that, then they should also pay for CATHOLIC and LUTHERAN and BAPTISTS and METHODIST and PRESBYTERIAN schools.

ALL things have to be equal.

Even ATHEIST schools!

Answer 7

If we take it down we have to take down Catholic schools too...