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Lumberton ISD addresses CSCOPE controversy

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The Lumberton School District addressed concerns and received praise at Thursday's board meeting where about 10 people spoke during a public forum. 

Lumberton was thrust into the spotlight when a photo of students wearing traditional middle east robes called Burqas went viral. 

About half of  Thursday's speakers talked about concerns of teachers teaching Islam under Lumbertons CSCOPE curriculum, one told the board LISD needs to rid liberal progressive influence from the curriculum.

But on the other side some former teachers spoke saying that the world geography teacher in who teaches the class burqa photo was taken in was doing her job saying she was opening students to other cultures but not enforcing religion on them. 

Superintendent John Valastro addressed the issue saying CSCOPE is a guideline for teachers and reiterated the world geography lesson was not a CSCOPE lesson. 

He said as public employees the district cannot do much outside of what state legislatures tell them to when it comes to curriculum.

He publicly apologized to parents who felt the district failed to respond correctly to the lesson. 

During this whole controversy some parents say that students were told to sign incident reports after the Burqa photo went viral. Valastro said those reports are written records filled out by everyone involved and then used by the district to investigate and see if stories match up. 

Through an investigation, Valastro says no students were forced to wear Burqas and no teachers forced religion on students. 

 

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