Ex-trustee Hamilton’s rant sparks debate

A former Coeur d’Alene school board member’s recent Facebook rant about a Muslim volunteer speaker at Hayden Meadows Elementary has sparked a cultural debate on Facebook. “If you don’t ask your kids every single day ‘what did you learn at school today?’ you really, really need to,” former Trustee Tom Hamilton posted on Facebook last week. “This week’s Social Studies lesson in a 4th grade classroom in the Coeur d’Alene school district was ‘co-taught’ by the teacher’s Muslim gay boyfriend who is currently in the US (from the UAE) so they can get married. The lesson included putting turbans on the students so they wouldn’t be ‘scared of’ Muslims.” Hamilton went on to say a 10th-grade Coeur d’Alene High School English teacher recently told students “with borderline hysteria: ‘If your parents vote for Trump then all the Muslims in the US will end up in internment camps!’” Contacted about the post on Thursday, Hamilton said he did not intend for the post to be a “witch hunt.” He would not name the teacher involved/ Jeff Selle , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

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