Principal has accepted another administrative position effective immediately.
June 5, 2008 - The Friendswood Junior High principal who outraged some parents by allowing an Islamic group to make a 40-minute presentation to students last month is now off the job.
The school district said Robin Lowe "has accepted another administrative position effective immediately. "
Parents were incensed when about 875 seventh- and eighth-grade students attended the presentation given by two women with the CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) in Houston. The pretext was that a Muslim student was "physically harassed."
David Bradley, a member of the State Board of Education whose district includes Friendswood, said parents have been contacting him to express outrage about the presentation. He said an assembly about Islam was a waste of tax dollars and was not an appropriate response to an attack on a student.TT - Ridiculously, the school superintendent said CAIR considered it a "hate crime."
"There's a personal incident between two students and as a result of that we're going to yank everyone out of class?" he said. "I got beat up in junior high. Did my dad go down and force all the kids to sit through sensitivity training in their P.E. class? No, that's absurd. The coach gave us licks and sent us home. That was the end of those incidents."
You can find the PowerPoint slideshow here. The funniest one? "ISLAM Respecting Diversity."
