A widely shared article about an Arabic calligraphy assignment in Augusta County forced administrators to close the school due to alarming calls and e-mails. Kim LaCapria Published Dec. 17, 2015 ...

Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff’s concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.

Draw this When the world geography class at Riverheads High School in Staunton rolled around to the subject of major world religions, homework on Islam asked students to copy religious calligraphy.

Tensions mounted after a teacher at Riverheads High School in Augusta County asked her students to complete an assignment last week that involved practicing calligraphy and writing a statement in ...

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Virginia — After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every… ...