[loungitude]

Middle school trip. Presumably parents had to authorize such a trip - it was not a sneak attack.

[constitutiongirl]

The parents were dumb-a’s to let them go but they were told it was to see the architecture and learn the history of Islam. They were not told that their children were going to be proselytized to or that they would be invited to pray. That's what was sneaky about it. Or at least it was "sneaky" for people who haven't learned to distrust everything that school administrations and Mohammedans say.

[HollyB]

The field trip form indicated that the kids would observe the prayer only. The women and the boys were separated at prayer time and the boys were placed with the men. Also, they were taught the prayer before hand as well. This was not indicated on the field trip form and the kids were put in a different area than the chaperone's who were women and couldn't (or felt comfortable) going to that area. It was the boys who were praying.

[driftdiver]

“Middle school trip. Presumably parents had to authorize such a trip - it was not a sneak attack.”

Probably, but the schools have a habit of giving parents only the information they want the parents to have.

I doubt they told the parents there would be prayers to allah.

This is the same state that says parents are not allowed to pull their kids from certain sex ed classes.