The superintendent of an Illinois school said the 9/11 terrorist attacks were not about religion — it was a group of “bad men.”
High Mount School in southern Illinois is facing some controversy after a parent found out that her daughter was learning about Islam in her sixth grade world history class.
Rachel Seger thought that her daughter’s teacher went too far with the lesson, telling the Belleville News-Democrat that her assigned vocabulary list included words such as jihad, Muhammad, Allah, mosque, and Koran, as well as some words she had never even heard of before.
“I don’t want her learning other faiths from school,” Seger told the newspaper. “If it would have just stopped at ‘this is their culture, this is where they go to church,’ fine. But when you get into the actual aspect of it, that’s where I’m drawing the line. That’s just going a little too far.”
Seger said 12 years-old was too young to learn some of the terms.
“If they’re going to teach it, they’re going to teach all of it, not just the happy, good side of it … and she’s not prepared to hear the whole truth,” she said.
The school’s superintendent Mark Halwachs defended the history teacher, and said the 9/11 attacks had nothing to do with religion.
“We have to present, with 9/11 or anything, it wasn’t a religion that did that. It was bad men that did that,” he said. “I think you have to take moments like that and use them as teachable moments. You have to look at the age group and your students, and to me you can talk about different things in the world and teach about tolerance.”
h/t Fox Nation
