School: 9-11 Had Nothing to Do with Religion

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Back when I was in school our English teacher would give us vocabulary words, things like "conundrum" or "extraordinary."

Well - the vocabulary list at High Mount School in Illinois is causing a bit of a controversy.

Their list included words like "jihad, Islam, Muhammad," and "Koran," according to the reporting of the Bellville News-Democrat.

One mom told the newspaper she flipped out, shocked that her 12-year-old daughter's public school history class was teaching Islam 101.

“She said, ‘What’s Koran mean?’ and I flipped out,” Rachel Seger said. “I said, ‘Excuse me?’ and I looked at them and I said oh my God.”

Superintendent Mark Halwachs said the lessons on Islamic vocabulary words was all about teaching tolerance.

Read the full story at FoxNews.com.