Dirty Little Secret

So the latest uproar in NYC is about the Arabic language school set to open tomorrow. Nevermind that public schools embracing French, Spanish, Italian, German and African cultures and languages have existed for years. Because the school will teach Arabic, some idiots claim that it will be a religious school. I wonder how they confuse a language with a religion? And if they do, why don’t they complain about all those French immersion public schools being religious? Because if Arabic automatically means Islam, doesn’t French automatically mean Catholic? Oh right, Catholics have never blown up innocent people or anything.

These people fussing about the Arabic immersion school, I just don’t understand. If you read any reports about the war on terror, you read about the desperate need for more Arabic speakers and translators. If you’re really afraid of Islamic terrorists, wouldn’t it be better to have more American citizens trained to understand them?

There are so many problems in the world today - hunger, disease, human trafficking, global warming, war, why fight a public school? Do they really expect it to become a terrorist breeding ground while under the auspices of the New York City schools, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the standards of No Child Left Behind? Have they ever actually been in a modern American secondary school?