This is a very likely candidate for this week’s reason for homeschooling. It seems that the United States’ K-12 Middle East studies program has been usurped by Saudi Arabian propaganda:
The United States government gives money — and a federal seal of approval — to a university Middle East Studies center. That center offers a government-approved K-12 Middle East studies curriculum to America’s teachers. But in fact, that curriculum has been bought and paid for by the Saudis, who may even have trained the personnel who operate the university’s outreach program. Meanwhile, the American government is asleep at the wheel — paying scant attention to how its federally mandated public outreach programs actually work. So without ever realizing it, America’s taxpayers end up subsidizing — and providing official federal approval for — K-12 educational materials on the Middle East that have been created under Saudi auspices. Game, set, match: Saudis.
Not content to simply fund the madrassas in Pakistan, now they are spinning the image of the Middle East in American schools. And you and I get to help pay for it.
It really makes you look at this story in a completely different light.
And people wonder why I homeschool.
Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs
