Night of 1000 Strings

What do you get when you combine over 400 string students and 9 string teachers? The annual district wide String Festival, which thankfully, only comes once a year. Tonight was the night, and as nice of an experience it is for the kids, I am glad to say that it is over! It's officially 12:03 am and I am just heading towards bed.

Scary Article

Here is a scary paragraph from an article sent out from the Berean Call, "But perhaps the most important point concerning Susan Douglass' past work is her role as the principal researcher and textbook review for the Council on Islamic Education (CIE), which has been pressuring American textbook publishers to revise their respective curricula to promote an extremist and revisionist view of Islam. One CIE campaign was directed at Houghton Mifflin Publishers, which resulted in a number of changes to their public school curriculum, including open promotion of Islam and requiring students to participate in Islamic worship activities. Gilbert Sewall of the American Textbook Council has documented the changes to textbooks resulting from CIE's efforts, and the changes made to textbooks under CIE's direction has been criticized by former Secretary of Education William Bennett. One published estimate states that Douglass and CIE have also trained more than 8,000 public school teachers."

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