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How is it that Muslm charter schools are held to a different standard than any other type?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_re_us/charter_school_religion_1 "The state said Tarik ibn Zayad Academy should change its busing schedule and its handling of Friday prayer services. The shorter prayer services on other days were found to be acceptable, but not the 30-minute service on school grounds on Muslim's holy day." So, if a public school keeps a Christian prayer short, it should be just fine and pass constitutional muster wth no problem, right? Somehow I doubt that same rules would apply. Why does our society insist on carving out exception after exception for Islam and Muslims that would NEVER be acceptable for any other religious group? guess: The dfference being Catholic schools are not public n nature, whereas charter schools ARE. Try to follow along here... dk: Incorrect. A charter school is NOT a private school. It is a public school which is adminstered independently of the local school district. george: If it were a private school, I would have no gripe with it. Charter schools are publicly-funded. What's good for the goose should be good for the burqa. EDIT: For those of you who seem to be confused, here is the defniton of a charter school from Wikipedia: "Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school guess: Incorrect. There are many charter schools which are Catholic in origin, but they are public in scope, and are not allowed to teach religion in any way, shape, or form...as is any public or charter school. Read a newspaper sometime. Further, it would behoove you to refrain from name-calling, as resorting to it renders your responses less less compelling. guess: If there have been over 100 cases, I'm sure you can produce a link to just one, right? I'll be waiting.

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1. Because you keep messing around with them and justice always triumph.
2. What are you talking about? A charter school is a private school. Christian schools do the EXACT SAME THING. You can't compare charter schools and public schools. Public schools don't have christian prayer time or muslim prayer time or any prayer time because prayer doesn't belong in school just like thinking doesn't belong in church.
3. Cowardice! That's what it is.
4. Which schools, different regulations need for flexibility
5. You are confusing a Private school to a Public school. Private schools are not held to the laws of seperation of church & state. Check out any religious private school in this country, Islam, Catholic, etc, & you will see that prayer is OK, Tshirts with I Love God is allowed.