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On 31 January 2016, the unreliable web site JewsNews published an article reporting that female students in Colorado had supposedly been forced to submit to sharia-compliant rules during a school field trip to a mosque (a trip that had actually taken place a year earlier, in January 2015): The JewsNews article was deliberately misleading in that it only reproduced a portion of the directives issued to students for the trip in question, leaving out the key context that the field trip wasn't solely about a visit to a mosque, but also to a Greek Orthodox cathedral and a synagogue as well: In that context, it's clear the dress code was in line with visits to multiple houses of worship and wasn't specific to Islam, as individuals attending other houses of worship (such as cathedrals and synagogues) are also often asked to cover their heads and dress modestly. JewsNews and similar sites also withheld the information that the field trip was an optional activity, so no students had to submit to a dress code (or anything else) if they chose not to participate. A bulletin published by the Douglas County School District web site at the time detailed a number of the misconceptions spread by right-wing web sites regarding the January 2015 world religions field trip: Moreover, the photograph included with the JewsNews article was also deliberately misleading, as it was entirely unrelated to the 2015 Colorado school field trip. The image dated to at least 2013 and was initially labeled as depicting schoolchildren in Denmark: So, the January 2015 Colorado field trip for students studying world religions involved not just a visit to a mosque but to two other houses of worship (each with its own dress guidelines), the trip wasn't a part of any Common Core initiative, nor was participation in the field trip compulsory.
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