03-26-2012, 09:45 AM
I saw mild degrees of this sort of thing when I was teaching during the Iranian hostage crisis. I had a little Iranian girl in my class who was unaffected, as they were just 8 and 9 year olds, but her older brother in high school was sworn at, spit upon and beaten up once at a football game.
As can be understood, it was a pro-Shah, anti-Ayatollah family who had fled Iran when the religious nuts took over. Those facts didn't seem to affect the behavior of the high school kids AND many of their parents, who screamed at BOE meetings that the kids should be expelled from school. Obviously, some of my colleagues hadn't done a perfect job in "educating" the community.
As can be understood, it was a pro-Shah, anti-Ayatollah family who had fled Iran when the religious nuts took over. Those facts didn't seem to affect the behavior of the high school kids AND many of their parents, who screamed at BOE meetings that the kids should be expelled from school. Obviously, some of my colleagues hadn't done a perfect job in "educating" the community.