Teacher to get a warning for remarks on rape victim
The Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission (UPPAC) decided Tuesday after an investigation to send a letter of warning to Tabiona School teacher Glenda Norviel. The letter comes after one of Norviel's students, a rape victim, claimed the teacher assigned her to write an essay about her rape and pregnancy in front of the class as an alternative assignment to reading My Sister's Keeper, a novel the student and her family found offensive.
Norviel then made remarks about the girl and her family to newspaper reporters who called her for comment. The Uintah Basin Standard quoted Norviel as saying the girl, "has supposedly been raped by the father of her baby." Court records show a man was convicted of raping the 16-year-old girl.
Norviel also told a Tribune reporter, "The girl is not an innocent. . . . If she has just had a baby six weeks ago, is reading the f-word going to cause her emotional trauma for the rest of her life?"
There are so many things wrong with this.
1) Disdain for the parents' standards.
2) Disdain for the victim of a violent crime.
I could go on but I have a crying child to take care off.
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6 comments:
Too despicable for words!
This just seems like a clear case or retaliation for objecting to the assignment.
I'll take educational anarchy anyday over these petty tyrannies.
I'd have objected to the alternate assignment as being heartless! People like this need to be allegedly smacked upside the head.
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Wow, that's really horrendous! As if the girl hadn't gone through enough trauma without having to deal with retaliation from her teacher...
The voters of Utah turned down charters.
Congratulations.
I am disappointed that both the teacher and the substitute are getting little more than a hand slap. I think the teacher should be fired. This was very, very unprofessional.
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