Yea or nay?

Question

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3558134&page=1
Explain your answer, please.

Answer 1

NAY >>>>>>>>What are we New York? France? Come on, this is pushing a RELIGION onto people that did not make a CHOICE to follow this Religion as it is Mandatory. The Arabic culture is highly populated of Muslim and/or Islamic beliefs, hence, RELIGION / Beliefs. What happened to the Public Schools NOT teaching these things. We all know that one does not dare to mention the name of Christ Jesus and the culture of the Jewish in any public school. Jesus was a Jew. I understand that most Jewish do not see Jesus as part of their beliefs, but the Jewish life and Jesus do represent Christianity. Even so, not even can we mention the teaching of Jewish books, which are the Holy Bible Old Testament.

I tell you, God's hand may be over the United States somewhat still, but not like he had in the past. If we continue with things like this, God will remove his hand completely and leave us to our destestable ways, which is probably not far off anyway for other reasons. I pray for this Nation that they will open their eyes and see and that their ears will hear, but they just keep pushing God further away so that we can be Politically correct according to man. This isn't even politically correct. It shows how cowardly we have become to fall trap to such a thing. I don't even think that the other schools should be allowed if they are teaching religious agendas, at least not in a Public school and as a mandatory curriculium. To teach it as a choice is one thing, but mandatory is another.

This all, if the school is the district home school of the student. Now if this is a school where the student and parents can make the choice to go to the school knowing the curriculium, well, though I don't think it wise, I guess it would be fair with the exception that it teaches Muslim/Islamic Religion, this is not constitutional. When you teach the culture of this particular gathering of Arabic Countries, you can hardly teach it without throwing in the Religious aspects, I don't know how it could work and still follow the mandates of this countries rights. Just like you could not teach about the Jewish state without mentioning the God of Israel, you can not teach the Muslim/Islamic states without mentioning Mohammed and Allah.

Answer 2

I support this school. In America, religious schools are often the best educational institutions around. The fear that it will become a center for radical indoctrination like a Pakistani Madras is unfounded.

Many non Muslims will certainly attend to learn Arabic and take advantage of a higher quality of teaching not found in public schools. Parents will appreciate the discipline.

If teachers espouse radical teachings, then this situation will come to light immediately.

Jews attend Christian schools, as do Hindus and Muslims. In America such an institution benefits the greater good, because our country was founded on religious tolerance. I can't believe the level of controversy this story has caused.

Answer 3

I say yea as long as we keep a close watch on any additions to the program or changes..Like the report was said in the world we live in today knowing what and who we face as enemies we can't take too many chances.. I am not apposed to the teaching of Arabic in the schools as long as it doesn't become a mandatory based language like Spanish imposed upon the young American citizens of our country... Languages should be optional like it used to be...

What I think is wrong is the fear that might have skeptics chattering about and spreading everywhere, that could become a problem and the school might become subject to attack... Other then that if it is truly run by Christian authority and it does not go out of bounds or beyond truth I am ok with it....

Answer 4

Actually, YEA.
First this is an ARABIC, not MUSLIM school...Read the bottom para's:
"Supporters also point out that the new principal is Jewish and very few of the students are either Arab or Muslim.
Susan O'Grady's family is Christian. Her daughter wanted to learn Arabic because her father is Egyptian."

Second, there are quite a few schools in the city that teach in both of two different languages...French, Spanish among them.
A Muslim school can be taken to the Supreme Court because it would be a matter of church v. state. The parochial schools in the city-some of the foremost, like Lutheran, Archbishop Molloy, the Yeshivas---would have to be treated the very same way as this school if it was based on religion. Quite a few people would be up in arms considering what tuition is at these private parochial schools if the Muslims had theirs paid for, considering how many parents are gone due to the bombs of the Muslims. But, that is not the case. Arabic is not necessarily Muslim.

Also, I have been a Key Club advisor to students in Brooklyn's Lincoln High, one of the largest in the city. I know to what extent there is a large Arabic population-young women going to school in their burqas, and young Muslim men. These students are not terrorists.
I also know kids who went to regular school who were proud of their people on 9/10 when one pointed to the Twins and said, "See those two buildings, well you won't see them in the morning," so it will not matter if they are in a segregated or integrated school-those who are Sunnis, those who are going to be our terrorists, will be them anyway.
And those who are peaceful, loving, law-abiding, democratic Americans will be getting their education in schools where they can feel, if that is what they wish to feel, part of their people and assimilating with their culture.
I am a strong advocate that English should be our official language, and when that happens, if that ever happens, I would be very happy--but I also am realistic. There are Yeshivas in Brooklyn where young Jewish men can learn their language, culture, and history. There are schools where Hispanics can learn theirs.
I am a Messianic Jew, a strong believer in both the Torah and Yeshua/Jesus, but this is not about religion, this is about culture aand language. It is about what may be the best way to teach young kids.
I say "Yes" because if there is going to be a student in that school learning or wanting to teach others how to build or propel a bomb, he will do it whether in the classroom or not. I say "Yes" because I put education first, and this will help educate these kids.

I say "Yea" because, very simply, it is the right thing to do.

Answer 5

A definite nay.

Private? No problem. Public? Not if this taxpayer has anything to say about it.

I think the liberals have taken this political correctness, permissiveness, and pandering to multicultural desires crap to the extreme and forgotten what our founding fathers had in mind when they built this country. Most folks can't see it because they haven't been around for over 5 decades and have no clue. But this attitude of diversity is slowly eating away at our country's morals and one of our core strengths.... unity.

I'm so vehement in these ideas, that I'm actually thinking of starting a:

Politically
Incorrect
Gentlemen's
Society

Answer 6

I would say yea
I think ignorance is the purest form of violence

It also annoys me that governments and media always manage to whip up an enemy to hate

down through the ages there have always been governments that seem to realize that the real enemy of the leaders is the people they are badly leading so they need to create diversions

yet when you go to the countries that are the so called enemy, they too are just families that want to feed their children and watch the rising and setting of the sun.

I think the world could be a better place than what we have now
and the world could be an awesome place if we didnt waste all our resources on hate
but then everyone would be well off instead of just a few pretend leaders

Answer 7

"Students will follow the same curriculum that every other school in the city uses, except that classes in Arabic language and culture will be mandatory."

If it remains a secular school, then I don't see what's wrong with it being a public school that teaches in a certain language.

I see some people saying "Well if we have Christian schools and and Jewish schools we should have Arabic schools too." But Christian and Jewish schoolsl are PRIVATE schools. This article talks about a PUBLIC school. For that matter, "Arabic" isn't a religion. If this was established as a public MUSLIM school, that would be a different story.

However, I don't know why somebody living in the states would want to go to public school in Arabic rather than making the effort to learn English.

Answer 8

My edited answer:
So, the school is Arabic because they offer this language for those who want it, correct? Article said only few who attend are actually Arabic? Guess I'm confused why is it an "Arabic" school? And also, headline said Muslim. Some are afraid it will be targeted because of the Muslim/terrorist label? They have the same rights to open the school as the Hispanics you said have opened them, or the Catholics, etc.
lst answer:
First was going to say the Catholics have theirs, why not? But Hispanics don't have their own schools here in the U.S., do they? I suppose if it's totally funded by themselves, ok. But the gov't. better not start giving our tax money to fund their schools!
Thanks for the more info. I didn't know Hispanics have their own, and when I think about it, guess they pay taxes, too. I apologize. I guess I do fear too many cultures taking over the country and pretty soon we will have our own civil wars to contend with.

Answer 9

Perhaps New York is not the best place to open a Muslim school, but as long as this country stands for freedom of religion and schools of other religions are allowed to operate, then this one should be as well.

I wonder how many other schools teach Arabic? Is that a horrid thing, too?

Answer 10

As a Virginian, I have problems with people somewhere else telling me how I'm supposed to live my life, so I'm not passing judgement. If that's what the New York City tax payers want to pay for, who am I to disagree.

From the story: New York City has dozens of other dual-language schools that teach Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Haitian Creole. None of them has generated even a fraction of the controversy that this Arabic school has.

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What's one more language?