Debbie doesn’t mince words!
I still miss your fashion threads.
Schlussel acts like she’s a leftist operative who pretends to be anti-islamist so that she can then criticize particular areas of the conservative agenda—like tea party candidates—thinking she has credibility.
Don’t bother wasting your time and energy with psychoanalysis and don’t waste your breath telling us that it’s wrong, wrong, wrong. That’s established. The question is: what are we gonna’ do about it?
So long as the school administrators in these instances can get off with a bit of public embarrassment and maybe a wrist slap or two, at worst, they will keep doing it.
The standard defence public school administrators have to outraged parents in incidents such as these is basically: “So what? sue the school district and you’ll be suing yourselves”. I’d like to hear from the more legally-minded what the most effective approach would be in these instances, because s**t like this is happening all the time across the country and the good guys need a playbook.
I’m not a legal eagle but perhaps suing individual teachers and administrators is the way to go?
Obviously, this is wrong.
But my kid wouldn’t have gone into the mosque, much less prayed to a muslim god.
Does anyone know if permissions slips were required, complete with parent signatures?
In our district, parent get a “subjects covered and class expectations” letter for each of the kids’ classes. Parents are required to sign and return the each form.
Each field trip requires a signed permission slip, which details the itinerary and educational goal of the trip.