What’s up with Tennessee?

We recently reported that parents had to complain to get pork back on the menu, after one Tennessee school tried to pull it from their program.

Now, a Tennessee school district is revising a world studies course after at least one student’s parent objected that all five religions studied in the class were not given equal representation.

The Tennessean reports Hendersonville High School officials in Hendersonville, Tenn., canceled future field trips to local houses of worship once Mike Connor — the stepfather of a freshman student — complained students only visited a mosque and Hindu temple this year, rather than those of all five religions studied.

“If you can’t share equal time to all five, you shouldn’t do any of them,” Connor reportedly said at a school meeting last month. “If we as parents don’t begin speaking up, no one will.”

The decade-old, 36-week-long world studies course, an elective, reportedly includes a three-week examination of world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.

In prior years, students typically visited a Jewish synagogue, a Hindu temple and a Muslim mosque, according to the Tennessean. A school board member noted during the recent hubbub there was neither sufficient time nor funding to visit all five houses of worship.

After the most recent field trip – held on Sept. 4 – Hendersonville High School officials sided with Connor.

“After receiving a parent complaint regarding field trip locations, our district has reviewed the practice and decided to eliminate field trips to religious venues from this class, as it does not provide equal representation to all the religions studied in the course unit,” reportedly read a Sept. 17 statement from the school system.

“This decision was made due to the fact that equal representation in regards to field trips for all religions studied in the course is not feasible.”

Connor’s stepchild reportedly opted out of the Sept. 4 field trip, and was instead asked to pen a paper comparing and contrasting the religious teachings of Jesus, Gandhi and Muhammad.

But that also led to controversy.

The Tennessean reports the material Connor’s stepchild was given as part of that alternative assignment included a single page of Bible verses, two-thirds of a page about Gandhi and five pages about Muhammad.

…“The teacher was pushing Islamic tolerance,” Conner reportedly said. “We did not want to make this about religion – they forced us to.”