Dope peddling Jesus. I'm not Christian, and that sounds right up my alley.
It sounds right up my alley too...and I'm a Catholic. lol
Dope peddling Jesus. I'm not Christian, and that sounds right up my alley.
Precisely.Freedom of speech only means you can say aloud what you choose to say - it does not mean freedom from being held responsible or accountable for what you choose to say.
It's a public school system, not a private, AFAICT, and she's well thought of by some students, according to this Tumblr. She's also published. There's not much written about this, unfortunately. I have to think there's way more to the story.
Ah! Here's a more in-depth piece: http://www.abqjournal.com/508047/news/rr-teacher-ends-up-resigning-after-student-complaint.html Apparently it wasn't really the story itself, but the peer review process. The Offended Student was the one who had to read story aloud for the peer review process. They wanted her to drop peer review from her classes.
All I can think of in stories like this is that I think a LOT of my friends, Christian and non-Christian, are going to be very surprised about who ends up where. Cf "sheep and goats."
If this was the regular procedure in this class, then that puts a different angle on things. I think it is entirely possible that the student wrote that story for the sole purpose of making one of their classmates angry or uncomfortable by having to read something they found offensive out loud.
Also, even if a child did misbehave, it's unprofessional for an adult in charge to go tell the press that a child snitched on her and a child is out to get her and to blame for the whole incident.
I don't know but as a former teacher, there are a few red flags to me and it looks a little fishy. We shall see...
I don't see how it does. Without a crap ton more information it still looks like she is being punished for something a STUDENT did, as if she had forced the student to write said offensive story for the express purpose of using them to pick on her other students.
I agree that there are a lot of unknowns, but I'm not ready to give her a total pass yet. And I agree that thinking the teacher forced the student to write the story they did is silly. However, she could have had a classroom environment that allowed or even encouraged it.
Maybe it's because I have very little rose-coloring on my glasses when I look back at my school days, but I can think of a number of reasons the teacher's actions could have played a part. I've seen too many teacher's pets who tormented other students and were never punished, too many classes where the teacher disliked a student and made no secret of it so they were the target of the whole class, etc. This incident may just be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm firmly in the 'we aren't being told everything' crowd. The teacher could be, as some seem to think, a victim of over-zealous administrators. Or she could have a serious problem in the way she runs a classroom. We just don't know at this point.
'Choosing' not to do what the teacher says can be problematic. Especially if it's been presented as a normal part of the class, and, as it was October, I assume that there had been previous peer-reviews. There are ways of reminding the class that no-one is forced to read another's work, and that one can choose not to, that both draws attention to the choice, and labels the chooser as, well, not one of 'us'.But Guarascio said her students were never forced to read each other’s work and they could always choose whether to do so.
And, in a classroom with a limited number of suspects, all of whom know each other, how hard was it to identify the complaining student? Probably took all of about 5 minutes.After initially refusing, Guarascio did tell students why she’d been gone but did so without identifying the student who complained, she said.
This is how I feel too, especially when she was told not to. ETA but that's the only problem I have with the teacher's behaviour.What does bother me is saying why she was removed to students. That creates a dynamic of setting students against each other for personal reasons, and I don't like that. Mostly because she is in a position of power.
And now I see she and I are published in the same places. Nevermind then, she can do no wrong!