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Closure of an entire school district? >> well, it is clear what you are seeing is a result of the sensitivity that many communities have around the subject. that is why you are seeing the reaction that we saw. start out with what happened. it is last week when the teeachr handed out the assignment, and apparently, from what we are being told, it is an assignment coming out of a standard workbook, and assignment she had done before and with no reaction. this time the instruction was to copy the shahada which is the islamic statement of faith, and it is stating that allah is the god, and there i...

Shut the entire school district down? >> this was a decision that was reached by the school district superintendent and the sheriff. i spoke to the sheriff this morning. he told me the school had received so much hate mail from non-muslims upset about the assignment they felt they had no choice. this is an assignment that came from a standard workbook and handed out before with no backlash. even so they decided this was the best course of action to shut down classes for all of the district's 10,000 students. more about that assignment. according to the school district, the assignment read here...

Entire school system today. what was the assignment? to copy this arabic u image. it is the basic islamic statement of faith. the assignment was for this world geography class and came from a standard workbook on world religions, but some parents here in this virginia area were not having it. they fired off angry phone calls and e-mails. some view as an attempt to convert students to islam. >> why couldn't we just learn to write hello, good-bye, normal words, not that. >> i will not have my children set under a woman who indom try nats them with the islamic religion. i'm going to stand behind ...

Information about this. he tells me, first of all, this was part of a standard workbook. >> she did not create this. >> she did not create this. apparently this teacher has assigned a very similar assignment in the past. there was -- no one said boo about it basically until now. we mamd an attempt to reach out to the teacher but we were unable to reach her. >> what's the atmosphere in the town? >> clearly, the sheriff says they're somewhat overwhelmed by the number -- the school was overwhelmed by the number of hate mail and e-mails they received. >> is that why they shut it down? i don't -- >...

>> controversial person, or people of the year. they have been named before. don't think this is a controversial year for president obama. i don't want to give him credit. gas prices went down. >> let's talk about that. sochi, ukraine. and plane shot down. killing 298. russia under sanctions. oil prices falling worldwide. vladamir put yin was on time's short list. i think he should have won dummy of the year. how bad of a guy in a year can you have when you literally say you are not invading a country. when everybody knows you are invading the country. you say that a pasture plane was not shut...