Hijab: parents determined to remove kids
Despite the CAQ sticking to the grandfathering of existing teachers in hijab, some parents are stubbornly refusing to have their kids taught by a woman in a headscarf.
I suppose they could always pay to move their kids to private schools.
steph 04:57 on 2019-08-30 Permalink
Racists hate being called racist.
js 10:00 on 2019-08-30 Permalink
These parents should be asked how they would feel about their kids being taught how to use Arabic numerals in math class.
Ian 10:29 on 2019-08-30 Permalink
Exactly! Also worth noting algebra is an Arabic word and frankly I’m not comfortable with an enseignante in hijab filling my 8 year old’s head with foreign notions /s
Jack 13:26 on 2019-08-30 Permalink
With Ian, Im just not comfortable with it, and I want my child to be a xenophobic racist like me.
Chris 00:34 on 2019-08-31 Permalink
speph & Jack: Muslims are not a race. The word you’re looking for is ‘bigot’.
js & Ian: Interesting that you have to go back over a millennium for your examples of Arabic numerals and algebra. In recent centuries, the anti-intellectual doctrines of Islam have been holding that part of the world back. Few books are translated, few scientists per capita, etc. See for example https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science
Dhomas 02:35 on 2019-08-31 Permalink
Chris, the fact of the matter is that if they are teachers here, they’re obviously not anti-intellectuals. Also, I can pretty much guarantee that those “bigots” are also racist…
Michael Black 07:01 on 2019-08-31 Permalink
Stereotypes exist because people take one element and apply it to a bunch of people who somehow can be grouped together. They see people in one dimensiin, and hen can’t see anything else. The classic “some of my best friends are…” happens because familiarity show a difference from the stereotype, but the person doesn’t take that exception to question their stereotype assumption.
there are traits we don’t like, not a crime in itself. But some white guy who has no sense of humour is seen as someone to avoid, rather than define all white guys as lacking humour. Yet ae do it with groups we can separate out.
Thsre’s a big difference between someone spewing stereotypes and racist things, and people who neer say anything but who for some reason believe the stereotypes. The latter probably can change with familiarity, I’ve changed and certainly was never sexist or racist but once I changed I can see it wasn’t a good state before.
Bad traits can be spoken about as something bad, without condemning a group of people. Anti-science is a bad trait, but remember Malala was Muslim and shot by the Taliban for wanting education for herself and other young women. Do we dismiss all Muslims because of this, or dismiss a subgroup while applying pro-learning to all Muslims?
I once held a door open for a man pushing a stroller, then his wife wearing a hijab nodded towards me. She doesn’t fit the stereotype, and rather than tell her she shouldn’t wear a hijab, we can make change by treating people differently. Men pushing strollers is a lot more common than it was thirty years ago.
Michael
Ian 11:10 on 2019-08-31 Permalink
“That part of the world”, Chris? I thought we were talking about people in Quebec being allowed to teach or not depending on what they wear.
Your over-generalization based on what people do in some parts of the world is at the very least a logical fallacy, but definitely verges on bigotry if not outright racism.
Chris 18:58 on 2019-08-31 Permalink
Dhomas, I agree racists and bigots overlap, but they are separate concepts, often conflated. Sometimes deliberately so I find.
Ian, if I said communism held Russia back, would you cry racism? But for another ‘ism’ (Islam) you do?
Ian 19:00 on 2019-09-01 Permalink
That’s a cute misdirection but you are evading the point that these people are being told they can’t teach here based on what they wear, not their beliefs – let alone those of people in different countries.