A guidance counselor in Texas's third-largest school district posted anti-Muslim hate. Parents spoke up. The district went quiet. Here's what you can do.
I have written a note to the CFISD report website but the school name "Aragan" is not listed in the dropdown and I cannot post without it. Can someone look again and clarify how I can identify the school and/or district so I can report my concerns?
If a kid can get disciplined before lunch for a hoodie, an adult entrusted with vulnerable students can answer for publicly dehumanizing their families. Funny how “accountability” always moves slower when the grown-up is the problem.
If we still had only Radio Broadcasts, people wouldn't know they were listening to Muslin Americans, just "born and raised here" Americans. I went to their stores and worked with many in NYC. One guy was doing his religious fasting. I offered him a bottle of water. It was a brutality hot day. He said he couldn't take it. "Jaad, you can't even drink water during this fasting?"
How can someone like that offer decent guidance to the Muslim students in the district. Which other students does she resent? The school district agrees with her.
Hopefully the school board will be replaced in the next election.
Our government and our media were complicit in creating this kind of fear mongering propaganda Islamophobia, they label you a terrorist for exposing their disgusting actions and manipulate and create war for profit, racism is needed if you want to keep using bombs on people and get away with it.
School counselors were often problematic for Black children. A Black physician had a high IQ, high test scores, and as a child the 'school counselor' told his family- 'We're placing him in Special Ed because he is slow', although they had the standardized test scores in front of them.'
I have written a note to the CFISD report website but the school name "Aragan" is not listed in the dropdown and I cannot post without it. Can someone look again and clarify how I can identify the school and/or district so I can report my concerns?
Thank you - I contacted the board, the district admin and the TEA.
If a person is tired of being called a racist, the solution is to stop being racist.
Called & sent email. Texas is a horrifying place.
Thank you!
If a kid can get disciplined before lunch for a hoodie, an adult entrusted with vulnerable students can answer for publicly dehumanizing their families. Funny how “accountability” always moves slower when the grown-up is the problem.
Conversely, many who posted comments critical of Charlie Kirk were immediately fired. It's right-wing political correctness.
If we still had only Radio Broadcasts, people wouldn't know they were listening to Muslin Americans, just "born and raised here" Americans. I went to their stores and worked with many in NYC. One guy was doing his religious fasting. I offered him a bottle of water. It was a brutality hot day. He said he couldn't take it. "Jaad, you can't even drink water during this fasting?"
I'm agnostic/atheist.
Nicest young man, Jaad.
That is EXACTLY how a racist thinks. People need to embrace people from other cultures and beliefs……It can be eye opening!!!
The "America we grew up in" had Muslim neighbors. And Hindu neighbors, and Buddhist neighbors, and atheist neighbors ...
If someone doesn't realize that, it says more about how narrow and limited their childhood was than it says about American history.
How can someone like that offer decent guidance to the Muslim students in the district. Which other students does she resent? The school district agrees with her.
Hopefully the school board will be replaced in the next election.
This link should be publicly posted everywhere especially in times like this.
https://civilrights.justice.gov/ <---U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Our government and our media were complicit in creating this kind of fear mongering propaganda Islamophobia, they label you a terrorist for exposing their disgusting actions and manipulate and create war for profit, racism is needed if you want to keep using bombs on people and get away with it.
Not cool man, not cool
I sent this information to Democracy Now! in the hopes that national attention would exhort the Texas school personnel to exert themselves.
This counselor, school, and school district’s actions in this matter are reprehensible.
School counselors were often problematic for Black children. A Black physician had a high IQ, high test scores, and as a child the 'school counselor' told his family- 'We're placing him in Special Ed because he is slow', although they had the standardized test scores in front of them.'
Dude what? That's ableist and racist.