What Goes Home

Sometimes I wonder what my kids tell their parents.  I had the craziest phone call of my teaching career the other day.  This parent called me during class (which was weird enough) and was yelling at me for teaching her son Muslim prayers.  I obviously didn't want to talk to her during class so I said I would call her back during the break.  So during the class break I went down to the office so I could have a private phone and called her back.  Immediately I knew that she was ignorant about Muslims because she was ranting about how they are all terrorists and how she didn't think that her freshman should be learning about them much less reciting prayers.  I had to explain to her that we never recited any Muslim prayer (just taught them the Muslim Creed) and that yes indeed I thought it was important to teach my students the basic fundamentals of all major world religions.  She couldn't grasp the fact that all Muslims weren't terrorist or that they share many of her Christian beliefs.

Anyway, back to the original point, apparently her son had told her we were recited Muslim prayers.  This obviously was not happening.  However, it makes me wonder what do my students tell their parents about what they learn in class.