Article: Montgomery County Teacher Under Fire for Allegedly Harassing, Humiliating 8-year-old Muslim Student

[Anonymous]

One option is that you can reach out to the regional supervisors if you don’t feel like a principal is doing the right thing. I've had to do that on two occasions, and things were resolved immediately.

[Anonymous]

Or the teacher just denied her a bathroom request to adjust her hijab and told her to do it in the classroom and that’s what this is all about. Since there is NO detail given it’s impossible to say. Everyone calling for the teacher’s head on a platter needs to chill out unless you have more facts. This reactionary stuff gets people killed.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I’m going to pick the student over the staff member, here, especially since (central) MCPS has done something already about the latter, which suggests that something indeed happened. Those are the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d also wait to hear facts. There was an allegation at our school that turned out to be 100% unsupported.
It’s good they separated the teacher from the child since either way they won’t have a productive working relationship but I wouldn’t automatically assume the teacher was Islamophobic just because CAIR says she is.

The part about bathroom access seems questionable to me — many many teachers limit bathroom access. It’s my daughter’s number 1 complaint about MS. Every day she comes home complaining about a teacher that didn’t let her or some other girl use the restroom when they asked. It’s a big problem in my opinion, but seems very widespread, not targeted. Kids are very quick to say “that teacher hates me!” when they get a result they don’t like.

I am waiting for all the facts too. If this was clear cut then I think this story would be all over the place. I read about it a few days ago and wondered why DCUM had not picked it up.

The story is not all over the place because it involves a Muslim child

In MoCo? It's the perfect story for this county!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or the teacher just denied her a bathroom request to adjust her hijab and told her to do it in the classroom and that’s what this is all about. Since there is NO detail given it’s impossible to say. Everyone calling for the teacher’s head on a platter needs to chill out unless you have more facts. This reactionary stuff gets people killed.

It's not stopping your from speculating that it was the 8-year old's fault somehow. When it comes to young kids, I will always err on the side of caution and investigate to the highest possible extent rather than just believe the teacher at their word.

[Anonymous]

The media tends to downplay Islamophobic incidents and give a ton of press to antisemitic incidents. Not surprising that this incident hasn’t been picked up by the mainstream press

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The media tends to downplay Islamophobic incidents and give a ton of press to antisemitic incidents. Not surprising that this incident hasn’t been picked up by the mainstream press

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The media tends to downplay Islamophobic incidents and give a ton of press to antisemitic incidents. Not surprising that this incident hasn’t been picked up by the mainstream press

EXACTLY. And some posters on this thread are clearly Islamophobic.

[Anonymous]

The resolution falls woefully short. The teacher should NOT have access to a teaching license. This is not a fair resolution for this child and her family. Administration that failed to act should be terminated too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The resolution falls woefully short. The teacher should NOT have access to a teaching license. This is not a fair resolution for this child and her family. Administration that failed to act should be terminated too.

Based on allegations?

[Anonymous]

+1
You people are crazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The resolution falls woefully short. The teacher should NOT have access to a teaching license. This is not a fair resolution for this child and her family. Administration that failed to act should be terminated too.

Based on allegations?

Allegations can be substantiated and it looks like they were in this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1
You people are crazy!

You wouldn’t be saying that if this was antisemitism. Who cares about Islamophobia, right? The county put teaches on leave for months because they support human rights. Now that was really crazy.

[Anonymous]

*teachers - 3 of them

[Anonymous]

I don't know. As an elementary teacher, I can tell you that all kinds of things are said. We had a student claim a teacher choked him this year. The teacher did nothing of the sort and luckily there were 2 other teachers in the room at the time, but the teacher still had to go through the disciplinary process and was on leave for a week during the investigation. The teacher was humiliated, and the case was found to be completely unfounded- just a student trying to be "funny."

We have had other situations as well where there is an investigation, but it turns out that it was just a misunderstanding or miscommunication.

I am not doubting the 8-year-old, but as a teacher and a parent, I know how often things are misunderstood or something goes home and is blown WAY out of proportion. Again, this is not to say this is what happened here, but I have been around long enough to know that you need to wait for the investigation.

If this did happen, I hope appropriate education will happen.