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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are put on leave DURING the investigation. It's been a real problem in past years and I would imagine this year, too. It puts a huge strain on the rest of the school, especially as subs are so hard to secure. Investigations are done to make sure that a fair outcome is reached. We should not presume the teacher is guilty yet.

You cannot be put on leave nor open an investigation without just cause. Read your MCEA contract. No one is claiming the teacher is guilty but as in the court of law, there was clearly enough evidence to justify using administrative leave. Anyone saying it’s easy to put a teacher on leave is clearly attempting to justify negative behavior

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t clear cut. There’s nothing at this point except how an 8 year old interpreted things and how the parents jumped to a lawyer. Maybe after there’s some investigation it will be clear cut.

This reminds me of DCUM about that principal last year. Wasn’t clear cut then either even though it was touted as obvious.

You're trying to re-frame the story and make the parents look bad by saying they "jumped to a lawyer" when that's not the case at all. They tried to get a resolution from the school first.

[Anonymous]

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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.

LOVE, love, love how you give the school and the teacher a wide array of the benefit of the doubt and none to the Muslim 8 year old girl.

There are literally no examples of the teacher's so called harassing behavior in the article, only very vague assertions. So, yeah, forgive us if we wait to be outraged.

Horrible, mean, bullying things have been said to my SN kids of the years. Things said by mean people that were meant to degrade and embarrasse them. No one wrote an article about it. Sometimes you have to teach your children that jerks walk around in the spaces you occupy. Such is life.

Or you can stand up for basic human decency. Maybe that's too hard to find in America now