Amherst Middle School Bedouin tent community event has people across nation up in arms AMHERST — What was conceived as a once-in-a-lifetime educational opportunity for middle schoolers has stirred the ire of bloggers across the country. The girls wore “abayas” and the boys danced a traditional men’s only dance at the May 9 “Open Tent” at the middle school, designed to show members of the community what they had learned about Arabian culture, said world cultures teacher Debbie Hinrichs. The trimester-long block was meant to teach the seventh-graders cultural tolerance, she said. And that’s just the problem with it, according...