[Crawdad]

The story is about being forced to teach something against one's religous beliefs in a secular school.

Where do you get the idea that she was forced to teach this assignment? She was asked to read a poem. She had options. 1. read it; 2. ask for an alternate assignment; 3. ask for a different class. There are always several substitutes in a school on any given day.

The option she did not have was to force her religious beliefs on six year olds.

Crawdad's wife

[mware]

Man, she would have had a heck of a time with Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.