{"id":13043,"date":"2013-09-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/22\/sumner-county-schools-cuts-out-field-trips-to-religious-venues\/"},"modified":"2013-09-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T12:00:00","slug":"sumner-county-schools-cuts-out-field-trips-to-religious-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/22\/sumner-county-schools-cuts-out-field-trips-to-religious-venues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumner County Schools Cuts Out Field Trips To Religious Venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130920\/NEWS04\/309200113\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TENNESSEE, U.S., September 20, 2013 (Tennessean): Sumner County Schools students will no longer be allowed to take field trips to religious venues after the stepfather of a Hendersonville High School student accused the school of promoting Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The issue surfaced when a couple of parents asked about a planned field trip to a mosque and a Hindu temple during the school&#8217;s back-to-school night, according to parent Mike Conner. Conner said parents raised concerns about the trip because the 36-week world studies course was only going to be visiting the two religious venues.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 10 years, Hendersonville High School has offered an honors world studies class in which students spend three weeks learning about Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hindu and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Schools spokesman Jeremy Johnson said the class has visited religious venues in the past, including a Jewish synagogue, a Hindu temple and a mosque. No parents have complained in the past, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Conner said he&#8217;s OK with the students studying five religions, but it became a problem for him when only two venues were visited. Conner&#8217;s stepdaughter did not take the trip but was allowed to do an alternative assignment. The school system said this week that all trips to religious venues are off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TENNESSEE, U.S., September 20, 2013 (Tennessean): Sumner County Schools students will no longer be allowed to take field trips,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}