Tag: SIOA

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Fay Beydoun's parents speak Arabic at home, and she's learning the language at Riverside Academy West.

"Alsalam Alikoum. Kaif halak," she repeated during a recent Arabic class featuring common greetings. Translation: Hello. How are you?

"I already knew how to write the language, but it's good to be able to speak it and understand it, too, inside and outside the classroom," said Beydoun, 17, a senior.

It is part of the curriculum in all grades at 10 schools in the Global Educational Excellence charter system, which has facilities in Hamtramck, Detroit, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Ann Arbor.

The charter schools were founded by Palestinian immigrant Mohamad Issa and his brother Said Issa in 1997 with 97  students. He said learning Arabic, in addition to the traditional core curriculum, will better enable students to compete in a global marketplace.

The next logical step, he said, is to expand into the Middle East, becoming the only Michigan-based charter system on foreign soil.
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"Sweden operates a charter-like system, and they're also found in Canada, England, and New Zealand ... ," he said. "There are other charter school management companies with schools in other countries, but as far as we know, there aren't any other Michigan-based charter operators with schools in other countries."
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Back at Riverside West Academy, when the bell rings, it resembles any other school with kids laughing, greeting each other and quickly moving to the next classroom.

The similarities end there. The schools practice gender separation in all academic classes. But boys and girls eat in the same cafeteria, which is halal in keeping with Islamic law.

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Ah, got it.  My tax dollars are going towards funding a colonizing people and their madrasas.  Oh joy... All hail multiculturalism!  And, down the road, I also look forward to reading all about how much of our U.S. tax dollars were funneled off to the Brotherhood in durka-durkastan too.  Say walla, bro.

The Dearborn Public Schools must make changes to comply with civil rights laws, following an enforcement action launched by a federal agency two years ago.

The U.S. Education Department said Thursday an agreement with the district and the department's Office for Civil Rights resolves the federal inquiry.

Parents with limited English proficiency in the heavily Arab-American [translation: Muhammadan] district were not given adequate access to information about their children's education in a language they could understand, according to the investigation.

Officials said the district also denied students learning English access to nonacademic programs and activities.

It's about time the district was required to change its policies, said Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News.

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DETROIT - A federal judge sided with Terry Jones Thursday and granted a temporary restraining order against the city of Dearborn.

Calling it "clearly unconstitutional," U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood blasted the city's demand that Jones and his supporters sign a hold-harmless agreement in order to obtain a permit to speak against Islam in front of Dearborn's Islamic Center of America.

Suh-weet! ...and to think that Ms. Barnhardt just celebrated a 1-year anniversary too.