In California, home to the largest number of Afghan refugees in the country, school officials are preparing for an influx of refugee students who fled Afghanistan with their families after the Taliban seized power in the country last month.
I suppose we could focus on educating Americans, but considering it’s California, that’s not really an option anyway.
Elk Grove Unified School District began offering culturally appropriate meals and setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays in preparation for the additional Afghan refugee students it expects in the next month. San Juan Unified is offering Saturday school for English learners and Fremont Unified is planning to hire more translators.
That can only do good things for EGUSD’s numbers.
In Elk Grove Unified School District, 53% of elementary students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 44% tested at or above that level for math. Also, 46% of middle school students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 35% tested at or above that level for math. And 61% of high school students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 36% tested at or above that level for math.
Who needs math anyway, when you can hire Afghan translators and then educate American students on Afghan traditions.
Elk Grove staff who are interested in learning more about the cultural differences the Afghan students will face can take classes provided by the district.
The Bacha Bazi course should be truly enlightening. Not to mention child marriage and murdering girls who look boys in the eye.
Elk Grove Unified, a district of 63,000 students in south Sacramento County, has about 2,000 student refugees from Afghanistan, said Lisa Levasseur, a program specialist in the district’s Family and Community Engagement Department. The number of students started increasing about four years ago. Now, the Afghan population is the fastest-growing ethnicity in the district, Levasseur said.
That can only lead to good things.
But back to “setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays”.
EGUSD became famous for the Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow in which an atheist sued the school because the Pledge of Allegiance includes the word, “Under God”. The case was an awkward mess that went to the Supreme Court, but should never have gotten that far and ended up being tossed out because Newdow didn’t actually have custody of his daughter.
The ACLU however had weighed in support of Newdow. And yet I suspect it will have nothing to say about Muslim prayer rooms at Elk Grove.
CogitoErgoSum says
How would this not be considered the government favoring one religion over another? Will government property be offered to people of other religions as places of worship? California is an example of what happens when all the stupid people in the world immigrate to one place.
mortimer says
By favoring Islam over all other religions, California is giving it de facto supreme status. Islam is now established in California, but other religions are not.
If they don’t like American schools, then why did they come? The rest of us have to accept having Christianity disestablished.
Clifford Fodor says
They came to this country to change American schools to Muslim schools. And that’s what they are doing.
Did not the ACLU get the Supreme Court to ban Bible reading and prayer in our public schools back in 1962?
Infidel says
If these Afghans need special prayer rooms for allah, what was wrong w/ them remaining in Afghanistan? Don’t tell me that the Taliban doesn’t provide for that: if anything, they enforce it!
CogitoErgoSum says
Yeah, maybe the schools in California should draw up a list of all the students that are Muslims and then set up an elite Islamic Prayer Enforcement Squad to pay regular visits to the homes of Muslim students to make sure they are saying their prayers when they are supposed to be saying them. As our all time most favorite President, Joe Biden, would say – that’s no joke.
CogitoErgoSum says
The whipping of Muslims students caught not saying their prayers could be carried out in the school gymnasium.
mortimer says
Of course, girls without hijabs will be caned out in the parking lot.
That should be ‘reasonable accommodation’.
Infidel says
In fact, since we are paying the Taliban, why not contract their Virtue-Vice ministry to visit the dorms of Afghan muslim students here in the US and seize those people and take them back to Kabul/Kandahar/Khowst/Jalalalalalalalalalalalabad/Ghazni/Herat/Mazhar-e-Sharief/… and make sure that they stay true to islam?
At least get something for our money!
Michael Casmer says
Boy that didn’t take long
DavidR says
Elk Grove is one step away from the capital of California. It’s public school system must reflect that in some way and here it does with a little spasm of virtue signaling. The newcomers will quickly learn how their religion places them in a privileged status and that assimilating can be detrimental. Asians lost that chance a long time ago by not failing to succeed and not whining enough.
Kenneth J Johnson says
And where are the special meals for A. Cetholics on friday
B. Jews
C. Vegetarians}
D. Japanese
E. Chinese
F. Vietnmaese
G. Mexicans
H. And hose who just don’t ike vegetablkes.
i.- WHO DID I MISS???
Ken
Infidel says
j. Buddhists
k. Hindus
l. Rastafarians
m. Scientologists
n. Shamanists
o. Keep going….
Ithandra says
I wouldn’t include Scientologist in this list. After all, the majority of Hollywood “elites” who are also staunchly liberal follow Scientology.
spiro says
I’ll just sit here quietly waiting for the push back from non Muslims demanding equality and separation of mosque
And state
I’m sure there will be a push back due to discrimination
Right????????
Giacomo Latta says
“setting aside rooms in many of its middle and high schools for prayer during Muslim holidays”
Any female corpses available to adolescent males to help them get a start on what to do with a sex slave?
Jack says
There have been prayer rooms for Muslim students notwithstanding “separation of church and state” enforced against other religions in the public schools for decades. It is a well kept “open secret.” What a hypocritical farce!
Jack says
I meant to say “in New York City.”
Jack says
I meant to say in my comment about prayer rooms “in the public. schools of New York City for decades.”
OLD GUY says
Welcome to Ameristan home of the free and the brave. It looks like it is getting time for the American brave to step up and take our country back from these left anti America liberals.