MANSFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) – Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

As part of the five-year $1.3 Million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School. The program would also be optional for students at T. A. Howard Middle School and Summit High School. (CREEPING SHARIAH) “

This grant is a wonderful opportunity for the students in MISD,” the school district writes in a meeting announcement on its website.

Parents at Cross Timbers say they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only told them about it in a meeting Monday night between parents and Mansfield ISD Superintendent Bob Morrison.

The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ (Only if you allow the caliphate to win!) But parent Joseph Balson was frustrated by the past. “Why are we just now finding out about it?” asked Balson. “It’s them (Mansfield ISD) applying for the grant, getting it approved and them now saying they’ll go back and change it only when they were caught trying to implement this plan without parents knowing about it.”

Mansfield ISD says in addition to language, the grant provides culture, government, art, traditions and history as part of the curriculum. ( Since this is all wrapped in shariah law, they will be taugh islam(religion) )

The FLAP grant was awarded to only five school districts across the country, including Mansfield.

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