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lapislzi

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13. It should never even get to that point.

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #8)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:18 PM

Jul 2016

No trips to sites that proselytize. That should not be an option for any public school. If all the field trips are to secular sites with the intention of promoting the learning of natural history, art, science, or other educational material, then no child would need to feel left out.

I can just imagine how the parents would be up in arms if a field trip was planned to an Islamic cultural center whose stated mission was to bring the word of the Prophet to the rest of the world.

This is not even worthy of discussion. Just no.

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It should never even get to that point. lapislzi Jul 2016 #13

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