What do you think of this crazy teacher?

[Boxlicker101]

NJ Teacher Blames Third Graders For Wanting To Write Get Well Letters To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal…

Zuniga

Sadly she has the support of the parents. Update to this previous story.

Via NJ Com

The chants from the crowd filled the auditorium at Orange Preparatory Academy during Tuesday night’s Orange school board meeting.

“Let her speak! Let her speak! Let her speak!”

Standing amid dozens of her cheering supporters was Marylin Zuniga, the third-grade teacher who has been suspended for having her students write “get well” letters to former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.

The board president wanted to adjourn the meeting and go into closed session, but the crowd roared in protest and demanded that Zuniga be allowed to speak.

The auditorium ultimately fell silent as Zuniga, clutching a written statement in her hands, leaned into a microphone and made her first public remarks about a controversy that has gained international attention. […]

In February, Zuniga said she presented her students with an assignment in which they were asked to consider the main idea of the following quote from Abu-Jamal: “So long as one just person is silenced, there is no justice.”

About two months later, Zuniga said she told the students about Abu-Jamal’s failing health and they asked about writing the “get well” letters.

“In April, I mentioned to my students that Mumia was very ill and they told me they would like to write ‘get well’ letters to Mumia,” Zuniga said.[…]

But at Tuesday’s meeting, Zuniga apologized for highlighting the letters on social media.

“I was very proud of my students’ work and I shared this on social media,” Zuniga said. “I do apologize to parents, students and community members for having done that.”

Some of this I find very hard to believe. Did it come from the Daily Kos or somewhere like that?

 

[badbabysitter]

so Boxlicker is outraged kids are sending mail to someone in jail

but is perfectly content that an economics teacher can demonize literally every man , woman and child in a religon

what a fucking hypocrite

this needed repeating

 

[Busybody]

Some of this I find very hard to believe. Did it come from the Daily Kos or somewhere like that?

Via NJ Com

 

[Busybody]

this needed repeating

yes, its wrong to send letters to a COP KILLER


and its right to KILL ALL MUSLIMS

 

[phrodeau]

yes, its wrong to send letters to a COP KILLER


and its right to KILL ALL MUSLIMS

What about Muslim cops?

https://www.nampuk.org/

 

[about_average]

Though exempted isn't really true. Trust me as that kid the peer pressure and side ways glance from the teacher just ain't worth it. It's like at Thanksgiving it's not worth being a douche to not hold hands and bow your head. He's a fictional character. Bowing your head to go does no more harm than raising The One Ring to Sauron.

I was talking about legally exempted, not peer pressure. Some people consider pledging to the flag to be idolatry.

 

[Busybody]

Public High School Assignment: ‘Pretend You Are Muslim’ And Consider ‘Struggles You Face’





How about this public high school assignment: ‘Pretend You Are Christian’ and consider ‘Struggles You Face under Islam’.

When are the public schools going to stop proselytizing for Islam? Wouldn’t a more educational assignment be “pretend you are” a victim of “sharia law or jihad”? How about a math assignment: what percent of your total income (jizya) must you turn over to Islamic authorities if you are Christian? Jew? Hindu?



Public High School Assignment: ‘Pretend You Are Muslim’ And Consider ‘Struggles You Face’

A public high school in small-town Wisconsin is under fire for giving students an assignment in which they are to pretend they are Christians and give examples of the hardships they face — getting bullied by public school teachers for reading the Bible, for example, or the inability to start a campus club.

No, wait. Scratch that. That didn’t happen. That’s totally wrong.

The assignment asked students to pretend they are Muslims, reports EAGnews.org.

The teacher who gave students the assignment is Beth Urban, a 10th-grade world history teacher at Union Grove High School in Union Grove, Wis., a tiny enclave just over the Illinois border.

Milwaukee AM radio host Vicki McKenna posted the assignment on her Twitter account on Monday.

The taxpayer-funded assignment requires students to “pretend you are” a “Muslim male/female in U.S.” and “give 3 examples of what you do daily for your religion and any struggles you face.”

The assignment requires an essay of five paragraphs in length (“intro, 3 body paragraphs, closing”).

“**Keep in mind we’ve been doing work and watching documentaries that have the facts needed to write the essay,” Urban, the teacher adds. The two asterisks are hers.

At least some parents of students in Urban’s Union Grove High class are unhappy about the assignment.

“I feel that the purpose of the assignment is to show prejudices towards Muslims in America or to invent them or exaggerate them,” one parent who fears being identified told EAGnews.

“I believe this is a curriculum issue,” the concerned parent added, suggesting that school district officials, not Urban, select the content students must learn.

“I would have no problem with this assignment if they were to pretend they were in the Middle East and practicing their religion,” the parent added.

There are currently about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, according to the Pew Research Center. Muslims comprise 23 percent of the planet’s population.

Almost exactly two years ago, the Union Grove school district was in the news for another questionable assignment.

The April 2013 assignment involved a crossword puzzle teaching eighth graders that conservatives are a bunch of authoritarian, oppressive thugs.

Conservatism, according to the public school assignment, is “the political belief of preserving traditional moral values by restricting personal freedoms and encouraging prosperity through economic freedom.”

Let that ridiculous middle part soak in, perhaps while you gulp down a massive sugary soda, utter something wonderfully politically incorrect and take target practice with your favorite firearm.

 

[Lord_Nibiru]

move on, nothing to see here

besides, apparently killing others is something to be admired long as they have a uniform. fuck killers in every size, shape or form - dunno how you can live with yourselves (even when government says right on)

 

[KingOrfeo]

What about this teacher?

If you’ve had kids or simply been a kid at some point, the assignment Wisconsin’s Union Grove High School teacher Beth Urban gave to her tenth grade US and World History class will no doubt look familiar: Write a five-paragraph first person essay from the point of view of someone from another culture. But Urban’s April assignment asked, “Pretend you are: 1. Muslim male/female in U.S. 2. Give 3 examples of what you do daily for your religion and any struggles you face.” And ever since conservative WISN talk radio host Vicki McKenna posted the homework on Twitter this week, it’s created a debate over what’s an appropriate lesson for a high school teacher to ask of her students.

Conservatives have quite naturally been frothing over Urban’s tactic. On his Education Action Group site this week, Kyle Olson said that an anonymous parent had expressed concern that “The purpose of the assignment is to show prejudices towards Muslims in America or to invent them or exaggerate them.” Yes, well, we’d hate anybody to think there’s any anti-Islamic sentiment out there, or that Muslim Americans experience significantly more racial and religious discrimination than Americans of any other religious groups. The Wisconsin Daily Independent asked, “What documentaries were watched and who produced them? The Middle East is known for producing several ‘documentaries’ that are full of propaganda and anti-American sentiment… Why is Christianity allowed to be shunned in our public schools while teachers are allowed to assign an assignment as religious based as this?” And on “Fox and Friends,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck wondered, “Well some people were concerned, ‘Hey, did you do this for other religions, and what does this have to do in the role of a history class?’”

Union Grove superintendent Al Mollerskov, meanwhile, says he stands by the assignment, and that the word “pretend” was only used in an email to a student who had been absent when the assignment was given out in class. He adds that Urban “wanted students to learn something from the assignment, not become Muslims. She did a similar assignment on Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism and we received zero phone calls.”

 

[sr71plt]

I think it is a legitimate assignment option when give as one of a few, maybe three, of very divergent choices. School students are somewhere in a wide range of development and awareness as individuals. I think they need to be challenged, but not zeroed in like this on the only challenge they have to try dealing with at that point in time. One wonders what the teacher is going to follow up with on whatever the student writes--this can easily lead into preaching, indoctrination, and stormy waters.

 

[Boxlicker101]

move on, nothing to see here

besides, apparently killing others is something to be admired long as they have a uniform. fuck killers in every size, shape or form - dunno how you can live with yourselves (even when government says right on)

To some Muslims, killing men, women and children is an admirable thing, for which Allah will reward them, whether the victims are wearing uniforms or not.

 

[sr71plt]

To some Muslims, killing men, women and children is an admirable thing, for which Allah will reward them, whether the victims are wearing uniforms or not.

Also to some "Christians." So what?

 

[RobDownSouth]

To some Muslims, killing men, women and children is an admirable thing, for which Allah will reward them, whether the victims are wearing uniforms or not.

Also to some "Republicans." So what?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Also to some "Republicans." So what?

I am referring to ISIS and Boko Haram and others like them. To which Republicans do you refer?

 

[Busybody]

Also to some "Christians." So what?

what Christians?

 

[about_average]

I am referring to ISIS and Boko Haram and others like them. To which Republicans do you refer?

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) for one, among others, who supported Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill that would execute some homosexuals. And traveled to Uganda on our tax dollars to do it.

 

[phrodeau]

I am referring to ISIS and Boko Haram and others like them. To which Republicans do you refer?

Do you want a laundry list of Republicans who support carpet-bombing Iran?

 

[Busybody]

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) for one, among others, who supported Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill that would execute some homosexuals. And traveled to Uganda on our tax dollars to do it.

Cunt Clinton takes $$ from countries that ACTUALLY kill GAZE

Uganda NEVER passed the law

 

[Busybody]

Cunt Clinton takes $$ from countries that ACTUALLY kill GAZE

Uganda NEVER passed the law

Really. Are you not ashamed of talking about a non law. ...yet ignore what Obama and Cunt Clinton support

Shame on you. ...but u r a LIB
...

You have no shame

 

[phrodeau]

Really. Are you not ashamed of talking about a non law. ...yet ignore what Obama and Cunt Clinton support

Shame on you. ...but u r a LIB
...

You have no shame

Typical Republican. Instead of taking personal responsibility, holler "they did it too!"

 

[Boxlicker101]

Do you want a laundry list of Republicans who support carpet-bombing Iran?

Yes. There are plenty of people who believe bombing Iran's nuclear capability would be the least bad of several bad choices, but I have never heard of anybody advocating carpet bombing.

The only American president I know of who ever launched a military action against Iran was Carter.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Typical Republican. Instead of taking personal responsibility, holler "they did it too!"

I think everybody who posts here does the same kind of thing.

 

[Busybody]

I think everybody who posts here does the same kind of thing.

so you are saying we have to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for a NO LAW and they can IGNORE killings of GAZE daily?

 

[about_average]

The only American president I know of who ever launched a military action against Iran was Carter.

The US overthrew the Iranian government in 1953.

 

[sr71plt]

I think that Box was referring to the failed attempt to release the embassy hostages. Sort of silly to classify that as a military operation against Iran, though--especially from those who would slam Carter if his administration hadn't tried to do something.

Folks here go way out of their way to stretch or make shit up just to "prove" a grossly partisan point about this or that. Box is more prone than most others to speak "dumb" to try to put forward such an argument.