Sep 14 2008
Did Teacher Use Muslim Student as Example of Terrorist?
[Fox News]
A public school teacher in Chicago is in trouble and could lose her job after she mentioned the only Muslim student in her class in an anecdote about terrorists, according to local media.
“The family does want her fired, they don’t believe that she should be teaching students anymore,” said Christina Abraham with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The teacher allegedly used the boy as an example when she described a hypothetical homicide bombing, saying that he would carry explosives on board a plane and blow it up.
Though the 13-year-old declined to speak to the media about the ordeal, his brother Mohammad Fahad Choudhary said that “before he even took his backpack off, he had tears in his eyes already” when he came home from school that day.
The older brother said that Saleh was then relentlessly mocked by the other students after the classroom incident in April.
“Everybody started teasing him and calling him a terrorist after the comments were made by the teacher,” Mohammad said.
Read more here.
[From me]
I hope the school system does a through investigation to make sure the teacher is not falsely accused. However if she is guilty she needs to be fired because that kind of behavior can hurt a child’s spirit. If the teacher did it, how shameful.
What do you think?
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Just shows to go you that someone can be intelligent, well educated, well credentialed, and still do really stupid things.
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I agree Kevin…if proven true, the teacher should never teach again…
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