trash-snake:snarkygeminidna:imtooticky:My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh
trash-snake:snarkygeminidna:imtooticky:My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years - thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! - and they slip quietly out of class to pray. My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems - schedules its WEEKS - around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.New petition: let Muslim kids have their religious days off from school^^ thisyou know whats the worst? Fasting on school during the exams. And im actually pretty chill with fasting during (regular) school days, but the fact that they force us to go outside in the hot son makes me insane. Why not let all the muslim kids (which are a decent amount at my school) stay inside and nap? But no, put us in the fucking sun while we cant drink, and put us in the cafetaria with all the others who can eat while we have to watch them eat and ask stupid questions like “why cant u eat?” and say shit like “just one bite!”fucking hell -- source link
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