Posted on 05/07/2008 2:11:50 PM PDT by dynachrome
When some parents at Prairie View Middle School asked for a separate lunch table for their children during the Ramadan fast, Principal Joel Martin thought the request seemed reasonable.
As long as the gathering of fasting students didn't disrupt and didn't cost the district anything, Martin had no qualm with offering the religious accommodation.
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Ryan Vandewiel collected about 60 signatures on a petition at Prairie View School to have the administration set aside lunch tables for practicing Catholics during the Lenten season. (Carol Dorsett/SouthtownStar)
If you go ... The Kirby School District 140 board will have a committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Administrative Center, 16931 S. Grissom Drive, Tinley Park. On the agenda is "cultural diversity." But his decision rubbed parent Jennifer Cimaglia the wrong way. And when the school shot down a similar, mid-Lenten request by seventh-grader Ryan Vandewiel and 60 or so of his classmates who signed a petition seeking separate seating for observant Catholics, the Tinley Park mother of three decided "enough is enough."
"It's not just about the table," Cimaglia said. "It appears that there is preferential treatment for the Muslim students
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Thanks to Key Largo for the heads up on this.
Without trying to sound too racist ( I know that is not PC ) ... what is wrong with the white people of this country? They are just sitting back while any group that complains gets their way and flushes this country down the cultural toilet.
It isn’t racist to observe the obvious and quantifiable truth that Europeans and European-Americans are bringing about their own destruction.
If the little $h!t$ are to be given a fasting-friendly Ramadan table, it should be loaded with pork rinds, ham sandwiches, BLTs, and pigs’ knuckles. Hey, they’re fasting anyway...no big deal.
Yeah but when it comes to policing other white people for racism or cultural insensitivity, they’re all fired up & ready for war.
>>If the little $h!t$ are to be given a fasting-friendly Ramadan table, it should be loaded with pork rinds, ham sandwiches, BLTs, and pigs knuckles. Hey, theyre fasting anyway...no big deal.<<
I don’t agree.
I also don’t agree that either Muslims or Catholics should be allowed a special table.
Where is the sacrifice in all of it if it’s made easy?
And yes I am Catholic.
I have never heard of a Lenten table. What would the children do there?
Abstain from meat on Fridays.
Yea but do you need a separate table for that?
INTREP
So they give a table to Muslim children in the lunch room to sit and not eat? Why not just let them quietly sit in the library?
“they give a table to Muslim children in the lunch room to sit and not eat?”
It lets the dhimmis know who is in charge.
Seems kinda mean to make them sit there hungry smelling everyone else’s lunch. Maybe they only fast between meals.
They fast during the daylight hours.
Wouldn’t the other children eating around them be offensive or make them feel left out or discriminated against the same way a cross, praying or the name of Jesus Christ does?
Why wouldn’t that be a problem all year long? Again, I have never heard of anyone asking to segregate Catholic children from the others for any purpose.
Oh, you are talking about the Muslim children. Hard to keep this straight.
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