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education rules: The newspaper said the TDSB tried to accommodate the family by offering a variety of solutions, including one that would see the children learn about the history of music in Islam, but the father turned them down.A TDSB spokesman declined to discuss the case with The Canadian Press on Thursday citing privacy reasons, but he said the board "always works with parents to try to find some happy medium" while at the same time still following Ministry of Education rules."Unfortunately we can't offer exemptions because we are required to teach the Ontario curriculum," Ryan Bird said, according to Metro News. Lauren Bialystok, an assistant professor in ethics and education at the University of Toronto, believes the school board did the right thing by refusing to exempt the children from music class."An exemption gives too much power to parental management of the child education," she said. "It does a disservice to the student in question and to that student peers and it communicates that our diversity is such that we can't live together or learn about different things together. Mohammad Nouman Dasu has been engaged in a three-year fight with the Toronto District School Board over his decision to take his children home for an hour during music class, according to the Globe and Mail, which first reported about the case earlier this week. That a very dangerous message."John Ippolito, an associate professor in the faculty of education at York University, said he believes schools are doing a pretty good job in accommodating a whole slew of parental concerns, but the problem should never reach a standoff."This is a disaster, this is a situation that has to be avoided at all costs," he said. He been researching those dynamics over the past 15 years. "One thing I've come across in my research is this myth that some minority parents are never going to change — that baloney, that not true," he said. The problem, Ippolito said, lies in the question "where do you draw the line ""That the wrong question, that inflammatory," he said. "The kind of questions we should be asking is 'how do we move this conversation forward '"Ippolito believes the solution to these problems, which he said pop up all the time, rests in the relationships between educators and parents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.