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If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Posted on 03/12/2005 1:36:33 AM PST by Flyer
Learning the prayer is not part of his class work, but 17-year old Clifton Jackson says a teacher at his school told him to learn it.
"That's not they job to be teaching him religion," says his aunt Rubie Jackson.
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Clifton Jackson was being taken to a mosque by a teacher to pray.
Jackson is Clifton's aunt, and she's upset because she thinks some staff members at the Boys and Girls Prep Academy are trying to convert her nephew to Islam.
According to Jackson, every Friday during school hours, a teacher takes her nephew to this nearby Mosque to pray.
"As far as I'm concerned, that's kidnapping. You don't take a child off of school grounds property without they parents' permission," she says.
She says his father went to the school two months ago and asked them to stop, but she found out last week that Clifton was still being taken to the mosque on Fridays.
Jackson confronted the teacher.
"'He's 17, he's legal. He's in the state of Texas,' that's what he kept saying," says Jackson.
But Jackson says her nephew is mentally challenged and easily influenced.
"We in no way promote any type of religious philosophy here," says Carroll Salley of the Girls And Boys Prep Academy.
The Superintendent and founder of the Charter school said she has reprimanded the teacher.
"I've talked to him personally. I can certainly assure that no student is going to be taken off campus without parental consent," Salley says.
Until they get some answers, the Jacksons say Clifton won't be going back to school.
11 News contacted the Texas Education Agency, which oversees public and charter schools.
The agency says parents have legal authority over a child until the child is 18, and because of separation of church and state, a teacher should not be providing religious instruction during the school day.
Right. Taking kids off campus to a mosque for Friday prayers is just for diversity.
"The Superintendent and founder of the Charter school said she has reprimanded the teacher"
But if this teacher had been taking the kid down the street to Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt and lighting candles, her butt would have been fired and the ACLU would have been all over it like white on rice!!
It's OK, because it's not Christianity.
/ACLU
Something is very odd about this story, I will have to read more about it. If this is true, parents should vote against it by removing their children.
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:
Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Looks like Texas needs to put a rope to good use.
by being fired, no doubt.
It is WELL PAST TIME to implement the SAME persecution/witch-hunting for islame as they've been doing for Christianity.
Islame/muslimes are NOT worthy of benfitting from the double standards.
the ACLU would have been all over it like white on rice!!
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I'd prefer to be all over the ACLU like slime on lice !!! ;-))
But how bout a little 'O that readin' and writin'?
And all the damned Separation of Church and State ninnies
will not touch this case right?
If this is a private school the people there can influence any way that they want...
Not against the parents wishes and behind their back.
Not against the parents wishes and behind their back.
If Islam is within the agenda of the school...well the good old American way of picking up your dollars and going elsewhere applies.
Interesting... I'm sure his name is something like James Jones and not Abdul Ja'amal.
"If this is a private school the people there can influence any way that they want..."
It seems it is a Charter School, which still makes it Public. Obviously the parents don't have the kid in a Islamic Parochial school, where one would expect to be taught Islam.
But it seems the headline is very misleading, it appears the actions are those of the teacher, individually, and not the school, which has repudiated this.
It would seem that the school would know when a teacher is taking students off-campus and where they are going.
Be careful what you axe for.. that's not they job either.
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