Sunday, February 21, 2010

Muslims turning to home schooling in increasing numbers

More Muslim parents are choosing to home-school their children, joining almost 1.5 million Christian students who are home schooled. - - Donna Poisl

By Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post Staff Writer

On a chilly afternoon in western Loudoun County, a group of children used tweezers to extract rodent bones from a regurgitated owl pellet. A boy built a Lego launcher. A girl practiced her penmanship. On the wall, placards read, "I fast in Ramadan," "I pay zakat" and "I will go on hajj."

Welcome to Priscilla Martinez's home -- and her children's school, where Martinez is teacher, principal and guidance counselor, and where the credo "Allah created everything" is taught alongside math, grammar and science.
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