Broward Teacher Suspended for Alleged "Rag Head Taliban" Comment

NBC MIAMI ^ | 3/17/15 | Keith Jones, Brian Hamacher

[SoFloFreeper]

A South Florida high school teacher who allegedly called a student a "rag head Taliban" was given a five-day suspension Tuesday.

Maria Valdes, a teacher at Cypress Bay High School in Weston, won't be paid during her suspension, the Broward School Board said.

[SoFloFreeper]

The family has been a thorn in the side of the public school system....complaining about the computers that cannot accommodate their Islamic names of extreme length, etc.

The teacher, it seems, obviously said this in JEST. AND no one took offense until dad found out. The teacher then apologized.

But that wasn't enough.

The lady was, according to the kid, his favorite teacher....now she has to have her job cut off?

Ridiculous.

[Genoa]

Anti-Cuban American?

[BenLurkin]

Here's an idea — have the kids change their names to American names.

Not arabic ones.

[StoneWall Brigade]

I agree

[rktman]

Maybe the meant RED headed taliban. Just a misunderstanding.

[mbarker12474]

One of my 5th grade teachers frequently called a fellow student “Bird Legs.”

Can’t do that sorta thing any more. For good reason.

[tuffydoodle]

In high school I had a science teacher that was also the football coach, a big, tall black dude. He used to call me by my last name but made a funny word out of it, McQuiddy. “Hey shuddup, McQuiddy, you monkey lookin’ girl!” It was a RIOT and I was never offended.

[PoloSec]

Could have been worse I guess, she could have called them the enemy.

[EvilCapitalist]

Rag Head isn’t bad. My best friend from High School and I call them “Sand rhymes with biggers”.

[lee martell]

The dad is over reacting, but I understand he would be insulted. The teacher made a common mistake of becoming too casual with her students and treating them like friends or peers. To call a child ‘part of the Taliban’ is to use a loaded phrase. Did she not know how cantankerous this family is? She does now. The Boy’s other teachers are likely walking on eggs and keeping a wide gulf of professional distance.

[molson209]

The Old Push Start , Pull Start and Kick Start ?

[DungeonMaster]

Obama is probably sending a plane load of federal employees to “investigate” the whole school system.

[PATRIOT1876]

Now if a muslim teacher did a beheading, she would probably not be suspended....

We wouldn't want to offend.