"The Hillsborough County School District drafted guidelines Tuesday that would regulate outside speakers in K-12 classrooms. The changes come in response to complaints from conservative activists after Hassan Shilby, a lawyer and imam, spoke to an Advanced Placement (AP) world history class at Steinbrenner High School..
...The School Board would have no grounds to investigate an organization for presumed terrorism and assuming something based on rumors would discourage students from accepting others... [Read More]
...A school should welcome members of all beliefs. Exposing students to multiple life philosophies and providing them with the tools necessary to develop their own opinions about the world around them...
...A class such as AP world history that brings college-level material to high school sophomores would be an appropriate place to introduce students to speakers of other world religions...
... It would seem that the issue [Inviting a Muslim speaker] stemmed from xenophobia rather than the actions of advocacy groups themselves...
...Just as Florida schools are required to teach abstinence education to students, they are also required to teach diversity.
...Eliminating these speakers may limit the exposure many students have to people of other faiths...[Read More]
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