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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Muslim mother refuses to cover her head. She also doesn’t go to mosque, although she does fast for Ramadan like a Christmas and Easter Christian. I hope the school doesn’t teach Islam as though it’s a singular religion[/quote]

You’re mother isn’t a practicing Muslim.  [/quote]

No but also many Christians aren’t practicing Christians. You can’t teach, “this is what people believe” as though it’s representative. No less than a foreign child being taken to a baptist church and being taught it’s a flavor of America[/quote]

Give the teachers some credit.  They are perfectly capable of explaining some basic Christian or Muslim or Jewish beliefs with the caveat that there are many different sects within a religion and they don't all have the same belief systems or traditions.  And that individual people don't necessarily subscribe to every teaching.[/quote]

+1. This is a silly objection. As I've gotten older, I've realized that the instruction about religion as a middle schooler were generalized, and that the diversity of human religious experience is a lot more complicated than I was taught. You know what else turns out to be more complicated than I learned in middle school? Everything. It's not a reason not to teach kids about religious beliefs. Most of what I learned was broadly correct.[/quote]

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