Fordson High School

Thanks to Debbie Schlussel for getting me interested in Fordson High School in Dearborn Michigan. I find it surprising that it's national news when a a girl chooses to mentioned God in her graduation speech, but you hear nothing when another school allows an Football team to say Islamic prayers before each game? See below:

She knew her speech as valedictorian of Foothill High School would be cut short, but Brittany McComb was determined to tell her fellow graduates what was on her mind and in her heart.

But before she could get to the word in her speech that meant the most to her -- Christ -- her microphone went dead.

The decision to cut short McComb's commencement speech Thursday at The Orleans drew jeers from the nearly 400 graduates and their families that went on
for several minutes.

However, Clark County School District officials and an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that cutting McComb's mic was the right call. Graduation ceremonies are school-sponsored events, a stance supported by federal court rulings, and as such may include religious references but not proselytizing, they said.

They said McComb's speech amounted to proselytizing and that her commentary could have been perceived as school-sponsored.

Why isn't it news when Fordson High football team says Islamic prayers before football games? Where is the ACLU on this? I wonder if they would have pulled the plug on Brittany is she would have been Muslim?

Here are a few items of a double standard when it comes to Fordson High School:

Fordson High School - Library Media Center - Links to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World an not other religion specific items.

From NPAA -

Fordson High School s football team made it as far as the regional playoffs, observing Ramadan during November. During their last game Musa Odeh leads the team in a Muslim prayer. Dearborn, Michigan, celebrated its 75th anniversary recently and during the year 2003 the wide diversity of people in the community and its neighboring city of Dearborn Heights welcomed the differences and history that 80 ethnic heritages and 40 languages bring.

It seems the academics at Fordson are a bit less than stellar.

http://dearbornschools.org/departments/assessment/media/HS%20RESULTS%2003-05.pdf

Something weird. There are three highschools in Dearborn, Dearborn High, Edsel Ford High and Fordson.

Dearborn High's site is here

Edsel Ford High's is here

Fordson High's is here

They all have the most recent annual report available online except..You guessed it, Fordson High. What do they have to hide? See below:




















Imad, you have some splainin' to do.


If you have some time, read the other two high school's reports look at their scores and then look at the district average. Some unknown is bringing both Dearborn High and Edsel Ford's average down. Could it be the missing scores from Fordson?