All public schools in a Virginia county were closed Friday. This came after a world geography teacher at one local high school gave a controversial homework assignment that required students to ...

Virginia Schools Closed After Backlash over Arabic Calligraphy Lesson: 'No One Was Trying to Convert the Students to Islam' Parents erupt over homework assignment asking students to write a phrase ...

UPDATE:STAUNTON, VA WHSV - All Augusta County schools and school activities canceled through the weekend because of backlash from a world geography assignment.Augusta County Public Schools had ...

Accepted assignment types are Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. When students open the assignment, Office 365 will create a copy of the file in the student’s OneDrive folder for the course for each student ...

Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff’s concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.

Parents shut down an entire school district after complaining of "Muslim indoctrination" in calligraphy assignment ...

I think there would be a similar uproar from non-Christians, and it would be justified. That is the effect of this assignment from the standpoint of those concerned.

Cheryl LaPorte, a world geography teacher at Riverheads High School, assigned her students homework using a standard workbook on world religions that asked students to copy religious calligraphy.

WASHINGTON — The homework assignment at a US high school asked students to reproduce a sample of classical Arabic handwriting, to help broaden their appreciation of its “artistry”.

Outrage over a homework assignment in Virginia caused a school district to cancel classes on Dec. 18. Administrators for Augusta County Public Schools decided to close the district’s schools ...

Introduction to calligraphy, VAstu 109, just might be the cure for an otherwise boring routine. Approximately fifty students are currently enrolled in introduction to calligraphy.