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Yet another reason to abolish the Dept. of Education:

Mandatory Arabic Classes (link from Drudge)

Some students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language.  The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

That's Mansfield, Texas - near Ft. Worth.

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant was awarded to Mansfield ISD last summer by the U.S. Department of Education.

As part of the five-year $1.3 million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School.  The program would also be optional for students at T. A. Howard Middle School and Summit High School.

Mandatory?!? MANDATORY?!? I'd yank my kids out of that school faster than a democrat voting for a tax increase. Then I'd go hunting for the idiots on the school board.

Parents at Cross Timbers say they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only told them about it in a meeting Monday night between parents and Mansfield ISD Superintendent Bob Morrison.

The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ But parent Joseph Balson was frustrated by the past.  “Why are we just now finding out about it?” asked Balson.  “It’s them (Mansfield ISD) applying for the grant, getting it approved and them now saying they’ll go back and change it only when they were caught trying to implement this plan without parents knowing about it.”

Get out the ropes, boys. There's a school board that needs lynching - and to hell with all that 'civil discourse' crap.

Trisha Savage thinks it will offer a well-rounded education.  “I think its a great opportunity that will open doors. We need to think globally and act locally.”

Hey Trisha - act locally on this...

Kheirieh Hannun was born in the Middle East but raised in the U.S.  She believes giving students the option to learn Arabic will give her son and others like him the option to learn more about their culture.  “It was surprising, but I think it’s okay, and it will help come down on the stereotype.”   Hannun says she is hopeful the class could broaden the minds of not only students, but also parents.

If it was optional then the only thing I'd be upset about was wasting tax dollars. But to make it mandatory, while hiding it from parents, just pegs the "Wrong" meter.

That's what happens when there's a muslim in the White House...