Homework Assignments discussing religion, Islam or the Arabic language

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, § 3(b)), I hereby request the following records:

All homework assignments for seventh grade history class assigned in September of 2013 where the assignment discusses religion, islam, or the arabic language.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Zack Sampson

Dear Needles Unified School District:

On September 30, 2013 I submitted a request for public records pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, § 3(b)).

I have requested a copy of "All homework assignments for seventh grade history class assigned in September of 2013 where the assignment discusses religion, islam, or the arabic language."

To aid in locating these records, they were distributed at Katie Hohstadt Elementary.

Please provide me with an estimated date in which you will have these records released to me. Thank you!

I am sorry if I had the school wrong, the records I am seeking were distributed in Needles, CA to a 7th grade class. Are you able to identify the school from that? Thank you!

I assume this is the proper school:
Needles Middle School
720 Bailey Ave Needles, CA 92363

I would like to check the status of this request and be sure that my clarifications last week made it possible for you to locate the requested records.

Thank you very much.

Hello
I have the NMS principal working on this. I should have the info by tomorrow.

Sent from my iPhone
Dr. Mary McNeil
Superintendent
Needles USD

Thanks for the update!

Blessings,
Jason

Dr. Mary McNeil,

Could you please let me know the current status of my records request?

Thank you very much.

Blessings,
Jason

Hi,
Here's a link to "Solomon Muslim Course Docs.pdf" in my Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/to4ljxs5j5gnv70/Solomon%20Muslim%20Course%20Docs.pdf

I sent this previously but I saw you emailed me recently. Please let me know that you receive this.

Thank you for your patience.

Dr. Mary M. McNeil
Superintendent
Needles Unified School District

Dr. Mary McNeil,

I did receive your email today, but didn't receive the first attempt for some reason. Thank you very much for getting this to me. I was however expecting to see more records than this. I wanted to see the actual assignments sent home with the children on this subject mater.

I was expecting to see one assignment in specific which was four pages in length (two pages front and back). The middle two pages showed two columns where there was Arabic language on one side and English on the other side. The English side had the English translation missing some words. For example "The Holy ____" would be on the English side, expecting "Quran" to be entered in the blank. I have seen this assignment already, but would like a copy of it. Further, since this was one day's homework, I was expecting to see many others.

Please let me know if you can provide the actual assignments the children were required to complete.

Thank you.

Regards,
Jason Smathers

I will check on this next Tuesday. I'll follow up with the principal today.

Please let me know the status of this request.

I was wondering if you have any updates for me.

Thanks,
Jason

Got it, thank you!