Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Teacher Joins Lawsuit Targeting Khalil Gibran School.

Brooklyn, NY — Sara Springer, a Brooklyn teacher who is one of the founders of the “Stop the Madrassa Coalition,” a group long opposed to New York City’s first Arabic-themed school — the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Boerum Hill — has joined a lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education (DOE), claiming that the agency failed to respond adequately to a request for information about the school’s textbooks and curriculum.

Springer and other members of the coalition, including the group’s Brooklyn-born president Stuart Kaufman, fear that textbooks and other teaching materials will be supplied by the Saudi-tied Council on Islamic Education, and that taxpayer dollars will be supporting “terrorist cells.”

“In this kind of insulated environment there is too great an opportunity for people with ulterior motives to inculcate our children with anti-western values,” Kaufman told the Brooklyn Eagle Monday.

“Ms. Almontaser at her press conference accused us of stalking her – we have stalked nobody,” Kaufman said. “We’re the ones who are called racist, participants in high-tech lynchings, and called intolerant. We are just expressing fears that are founded in reality and we refuse to be victims.” [brooklyneagle]