They just never lear.<\/p>\n
The head of a Texas Islamic group that rented out a taxpayer-funded waterpark for an event that was advertised as \u201cMuslim only\u201d<\/a> runs a childhood education center with the exact same unfortunate \u2018Learing Center\u2019 typo first seen at an infamous daycare in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n The Excellence Early \u201cLearing\u201d Center typo drew comparisons to the now-infamous Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis which is under investigators\u2019 microscope as a possible fraud. excellenceearlylearningcenter.com<\/p>\n The \u201cExcellence Early Learing Center,\u201d as its misspelled website header reads \u2014 located in the Fort Worth suburb of Hurst \u2014 offers a variety of programs for youngsters from infants to pre-K, and promises to provide children with \u201cthe loving, personal care that they need to thrive and feel confident.\u201d<\/p>\n The center boasts \u201cmulticulturalism, small classroom sizes, healthy eating and a warm, loving environment that feels like home\u201d and staff with degrees in \u201ceducation, accounting, biology, pharmacology, science, nursing and mathematics from their home countries.\u201d<\/p>\n Its owner, head operator and curriculum designer is Aminah Knight, who boasts a master\u2019s degree fro the University of Southern California and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n The very same typo was found on signage outside the Quality Learing Center in Minneapolis. LP Media for NY Post<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Knight and her DFW Epic Eid organization drew massive criticism for a flyer advertising an event at Epic Waters in Grand Prairie billed as \u201cMuslim only\u201d and requiring modest swimsuits for all attendees.<\/p>\n Epic Waters, a sprawling, 80,000-square-feet indoor waterpark opened in 2017 at a cost of $88 million \u2014 funded by a 0.25% sales tax hike residents approved at the ballot box in 2014.<\/p>\n The FAQ for the third-annual event, which was being held to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid, initially proclaimed \u201cthe entire waterpark has been exclusively reserved for Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n After the backlash, Knight modified the advert to omit the exclusionary language, and acknowledged to The Post in an email that the original messaging wasn\u2019t intended to bar non-Muslims.<\/p>\n DFW Epic Eid put out a flyer advertising a Muslims-only event at a Texas indoor waterpark funded by taxpayer dollars before the event was canceled amid the uproar.<\/p>\n \u201cThe core intention behind this event is to create a space where individuals and families who value modest dress and a modest environment can come together and feel comfortable enjoying a recreational space that often doesn\u2019t naturally accommodate those preferences,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n But by the time the uproar reached critical mass it was too late, and the event was subsequently scrapped<\/a> after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to yank $530,000 in public safety grants from the city of Grand Prairie if it didn\u2019t cancel the event by May 11.<\/p>\n Dr. Aminah Knight is the owner, head operator and curriculum designer of the Excellence Early Learing Center, and heads up DFW Epic Eid, which organized the since-canceled Muslims-only waterpark event. Facebook\/Aminah Knight-Abdullah<\/p>\n \u201cA city-owned water park in Grand Prairie openly advertised a \u201cMUSLIMS ONLY\u201d event \u2013 closed to the general public,\u201d\u00a0Abbott fumed in an X post Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAfter further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid event at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark has been canceled,\u201d a city spokesperson told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n Knight didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email from The Post Thursday seeking comment about the typo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They just never lear. 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