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NYC public school teaching mandatory Arabic..what do you think?

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A public school in Manhattan will be the first in the city to require students to study Arabic. Students at PS-368 will be required to take 2 classes a week for 45 minutes each. The principal states that Arabic is "a critical-need language" and also believes that it will help the school obtain a prestigious International Baccalaureate standing.

So we want to know..what do you think? Is this a great idea and would you sign the permission slip? OR would you have a problem if your child's school started teaching mandatory Arabic lessons?

NYC Public School Mandates Arabic Language Studies for All 2nd Through 5th Graders

From The Blaze

PS 368, a public elementary school in Manhattan, New York, has implemented a school-wide mandate that is capturing headlines. Principal Nicky Kram Rosen is requiring all 200 students in grades second through fifth to spend two 45-minute sessions each week learning Arabic.

The requirement, which will begin next semester, is intended to help bolster the school’s standing. Rather than focusing on more common (some would argue even more useful) languages like French or Spanish, Rosen has chosen Arabic in an effort to achieve an International Baccalaureate, which would apparently be a wonderful sentiment for the school’s reputation.

“She proposed this to the parent association. They were very supportive,” explained Angela Jackson, the CEO of the Global Language Project, a group backing the initiative. “Arabic has been identified as a critical-need language. It means they can spin the globe and decide where they want to work and live.”

The program was created as a partnership between the Global Language Project and the Qatar Foundation International. Currently, children are participating in a pilot version of the class during their free afternoon periods. As far as potential objections to the program go, the school will need to focus on those incidents, should they become a problem, on an individualized basis.

The Arabic requirement becomes mandatory in September. But PS 368 is a so-called “choice’’ school and no kids, even those living nearby, are forced to attend it. If the school ever enrolls a student who objects to learning Arabic, administrators will deal with that on a case-by-case basis, Jackson said.

Mohamed Mamdouh, who teaches the pilot program, said, “Soon, Arabic will be a global language like French and Spanish. These kids are like sponges. It’s amazing to see their progress.’’

Mamdouh yesterday played a version of duck, duck, goose with the kids using the Arabic words for mother and father — mama and baba — for ducks and geese.

NY1 is reporting that teachers at the school also hope that, in addition to language skills, students gain a better understanding of the Middle East and Arab culture. So far, no opposition to the program has been reported. 

Would YOU express opposition if it were your child?

Comments

Don’t you think it would be good for the little darlings to learn English language, rules and structures FIRST!!!!! Good grief, they can’t speak, read or write basic English…..(KAYDEEBEAU)

What’s really sad is that each of those little kids in the picture know more about their ethnic heritage than they know what it even means to be a good American. I’m this, your that! Be an American first! Learn English first! All cultures are not equal, all nations are not equal!

 

“When Race becomes lifted up over accomplishment, we have then lost what it means to be an exceptional nation among nations”. JMS.

Middle School Teacher makes Students help President Obama campaign

Virginia Teacher Makes Middle School Students Do Opposition Research for Obama

A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.  The 8th grade students, who attend Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, were required to seek out the vulnerabilities of" Santorum, Romney, Gingrich Ron Paul, "and forward them to the Obama campaign." 

Indoctrination at LIBERTY Middle School

An eighth grade teacher assigned as a class project Republican "opposition research" and the kids were instructed to send their results to Obama.  "'This assignment was just creepy beyond belief -- like something out of East Germany during the Cold War,' one frustrated father, who asked for his family to remain anonymous, told The Daily Caller.  The assignment was for students to research the backgrounds and positions of each of the GOP candidates for president and find 'weaknesses' in them, the parent explained. From there, students were to prepare a strategy paper to exploit those weaknesses" in the Republican candidates that they found "and then to send their suggestions to the Obama campaign. 

"Liberty teacher Michael Denman," the culprit here, who "declined to comment, unveiled the assignment in mid-January when he broke the Civics Honor’s class into four groups, one for each Republican candidate. The students were then to collaborate as a group and research the backgrounds of their assigned candidate.  Denman assigned two kids to write a paper revealing the identified 'weaknesses,' two to write the attack strategy paper and two others to locate an individual inside the Obama campaign to whom they could send the information. 

"'My classmates don’t actually know a lot, but a few of us tended to agree that the most recent instruction on this project just didn’t seem right,' one of the students told TheDC. 'Mr. Denman didn’t tell us where to find the information, just to research on them.'  As a result, the school received multiple phone calls from parents frustrated with the political nature of the assignment, the father told TheDC.  'I was shocked that a school teacher would so blatantly politicize the curriculum of a middle school classroom,' the parent said."

(Why are you surprised, sir? )

"'I asked [my child] if a similar assignment had been handed out to examine the background and positions of President Obama to see if the teacher was at least being bipartisan.' 

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