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Susana Asberry teaches a writing class at UW. She was placed on probation after answering a student's question:
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During a writing unit that involved American slang, the students learned about the phrase “bucket list” and submitted their own examples. A student asked Susana about her bucket list and Susana replied: “When I retire, I want to share the word of God with people.”
One student complained. As an observant Muslim, who covers her body as part of her faith, she said she was made to feel unsafe. According to Susana, that is when her career changed.
The Muslim student wears a head-covering, as the interviewer (at link) points out, literally wearing her religion on her sleeve. And Susana points out that there are areas in the classroom designated for Muslim students to pray. Apparently they bring their prayer rugs, leave them in the designated area, and go to pray when it is time to do so. Susana says she never had a problem with this, and obviously there was no discipline being issued by the UW admin for it.
Along with the probation, she is required to undergo re-education. She said that a union rep was with her during the meeting where the discipline was issued. Iff the union lets this stand, she probably has a lawsuit against the union for allowing 'disparate treatment.'
The kid and school were wrong on this since the teacher was not forcing her religion on anyone. And the student who complained, in particular, should have been made to appreciate the idiotic irony of complaining about other people professing their faith when they are doing the same.
That being said, don't think I'm blind to the political angle obviously being put on this, particularly around this forum and its infamous hard-right leaning. If this situation had been reversed and the Muslim teacher had spoke of spreading Allah's word and some hard-right Christian kid complained, this forum would be lit up with righties praising this move to keep "those people" out of our nation along with some random YouTube videos that "prove" all Muslims are horrible in some random way.
The kid and school were wrong on this since the teacher was not forcing her religion on anyone. And the student who complained, in particular, should have been made to appreciate the idiotic irony of complaining about other people professing their faith when they are doing the same.
That being said, don't think I'm blind to the political angle obviously being put on this, particularly around this forum and its infamous hard-right leaning. If this situation had been reversed and the Muslim teacher had spoke of spreading Allah's word and some hard-right Christian kid complained, this forum would be lit up with righties praising this move to keep "those people" out of our nation along with some random YouTube videos that "prove" all Muslims are horrible in some random way.
So, yeah... a lot of wrongs to go around...
I don't think that there would have been complaints from the right if a teacher mentioned 'Allah.' Can you supply just one example of that?
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