You would think they would have thought twice about this travesty. . Especially after the Patriots Day/Marathon bombing. This Principal should lose is job!!!
Bad Choice and a even worse poem.
salami salami baloney!
Well, I guess that terrorist Tsarnaev was not available to speak at their school for cross cultural understanding and all.
Paul Revere does a facepalm
Everything I needed to know about the muslim culture, I learned on 9/11/01.
I wonder if it ever occurred to Mohja’s grandmother how nasty, inconsiderate, and disrespectful it is of her to wash her feet in a public sink.
Since such considerations are meaningless next to adhering to the Religion of Peace, then it’s yet another in the very long list of reasons not to allow Muslim immigration.
You guys see the ads on Huffpo for “Aljazeera America” ?
What? Their “pledge reader” had another commitment? So only one kid in the school can read the Pledge of Allegiance? And WTF.....the kids aren’t taught it by memory? That school needs to be shut down by the taxpayers.
The principal is operating under the old adage of “It is better to ask forgiveness than permission”.
Unless something comes of this, he will be vindicated for his approach.
Massachusetts> What did you expect for 9/11? Reverence? Something truthful about who did what to whom on that day?
Common on. They elected Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy for life and some of his family’s spawn. Barney Frank, Elizabeth The Liar Warren, Ed Markey the Red, and the Soviet spies from Harvard.
Now you know why this crap happened at Concord-Carlise High.
“Cross-cultural understanding.” Sunshine, rainbows, lollipops.
Ofcourse no Christian poems allowed!
You want offensive? THIS is offensive to WTP! What are TPTB going to do about it? WTP demand they do something, not just WHITE wash the entire affair. Disgusting, sick and extremely OFFENSIVE.
Maybe it is time to pi$$ on cross-cultural understanding and start teaching the students about the United States and it is supposed to stand for.
I grew up in Acton, which is the next town over. we use to say the pledge ourselves. how would listening to it be the same as saying it?
after saying that.. this story outrages me
Tar and feather the principal.
Cross cultural understanding?
A line in the poem reads: “My grandmother knows one culture—the right one,”
Sure sounds inclusive to others doesn’t it?
catches their meaning and her look in the mirror says,
I have washed my feet over Iznik tile in Istanbul,
with water from the world's ancient irrigation systems
I have washed my feet in the bathhouses of Damascus
over painted bowls imported from China
among the best families of Aleppo
And if you Americans knew anything
about civilization and cleanliness,
you'd make wider washbins, anyway
My grandmother knows one culture—the right one,
It sounds like they were forcing religion down the students’ throats. What if someone got offended?