It's All Part of THE AGENDA, See?

A story from a local Georgia TV station is getting the nuts excited. A father complained because a middle-school homework assignment quoted a fictional Muslim woman who was proud of her religion. She was also happy to see her husband take another wife, and was thrilled to be covered from head to toe because it protected her from the blowing sand.

Thing is, the fact that the father describes himself as a Conservative and thinks the homework assignment is unbalanced and too favorable to Islam doesn't mean a Lefty like me can't agree with him in principal. When I send my kids to a public school, I don't want them to learn that the idea of polygamy is worthy of debate or that a place where women are covered from head to toe is good for them if it's sandy.

I know public schools don't have an easy time, but in this case, I'm sure we can just find another way to teach the pros and cons of school uniform, which amazingly enough, was somehow the object of this homework assignment. And they did. The curriculum was adjusted. End of story.

Unless Free Republic members have anything to add?

Abolish ALL of the communist government scamming departments.

Government schools are godless and teach children to think and reason godlessly. They children must if they are to cooperate in the classroom.

Look at the recent Californa textbook law — pushing the homosexual agenda in every public school textbook.

Abolish the Department of Education - and do it soon!

Polygamy is the left’s next agenda after they win gay marriage.

I'm glad I never had any kids.