There is an attitude among (usually) Caucasian Americans whose families have lived here for at least a couple of generations that many accommodations have been made for new groups of people who have come to make the US their home. They seem to resent these accommodations and do not know or understand some of the difficulties of assimilation that their own families may have been through in the past. (For my own family, in the 1930′s laws were passed that required English to be taught in public schools and my grandparents and their daughters–including my mother–had to stop speaking German.)

I uphold the Constitution’s allowing us religious pluralism, and I wondered about how prayer is actually being handled at Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy. I wouldn’t support a public school crossing that line of separation between church and state, but I don’t know at this time what is allowable in a public school for students pursuing ANY relgious practice.

There is an ignorance of the law and what exactly students are doing at the academy is still a little unclear. And what people don’t know or understand, they fear and hate.

And it’s sad and unfortunate.

I am planning to come to this blog regularly, so I can learn more and maybe I can bring some perspective when I am on the Strib site or when I am talking to others.