Seaside principal: no public apologyBy Bay City News Service A Monterey school principal today cited employee rights as the reason why a public apology would not follow a lunchroom incident Tuesday when a supervisor demanded that a Muslim student remove her Islamic head scarf. Seaside High School Principal Sydney Renwick agreed to a face-to-face apology for the 13-year-old student who said she was humiliated when a lunchroom supervisor demanded she remove her hijab in front of 100 students at her school .
The Gentile says an apology is necessary and should suffice, but not all agree...
But Renwick said a request by the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to have the lunchroom supervisor publicly apologize would be a violation of the employee's rights. He cited the creation of a hostile work environment as one of those violations."The school understands that this is an emotional issue and that religious practice is central to this community's beliefs and value system," Renwick said. "But on the same token, we cannot violate this person's rights while we attempt to rectify the situation." CAIR is requesting a public apology because the student was humiliated in public, according to CAIR spokeswoman Abiya Ahmed. "A public apology is important not just for this girl, it would offer closure to the family," Ahmed said.She said her group has offered to provide diversity training at the school to prevent what she called "ignorance" and "misunderstanding" within the community.But Seaside already has a comprehensive diversity training program set in place, Renwick said. In recognition of the community's diverse population, the training was implemented before the school year, he said. Renwick called Tuesday's event an isolated incident and said that it was not the intent of the employee to single out one person because of her faith. The employee was enforcing school rules that prohibit headwear indoors, according to Renwick. The rule exists for student safety and mostly applies to inappropriate clothing such as gang-related attire. "This was in no way an attempt to harm a student," Renwick said. "This was an extremely isolated incident. There's a zero tolerance policy (against prejudice and discrimination) at this school. Zero tolerance is understood, accepted and reinforced. When incidences do occur, they are investigated thoroughly."Renwick said the investigation into Tuesday's incident has been completed and that he is in the process of determining disciplinary action.
The Gentile says; Dear Abiya Ahmed, diversity training? Islam does not care for "diversity", you should know that. You either tow the line or your outted( killed). I guess what you mean by diversity training is "indoctrination", that is defined a little differently then "diversity training".
It is not amazing that CAIR would have a cow over an apology. This is the same group that calls hamas a resistance movement. This is the same group that is an unindicted co-conspirator in a case currently on trial for funding terrorists. Look, CAIR has openly stated that islam is not in this country to be equal to other beliefs and religions, CAIR believes the US should be under sharia law, CAIR is a representative of intolerance, hatred, anger, vengeance, commonly known as islam. I certainly hope Mr Renwick doesn't cave to the threats by CAIR.
Monday, June 25, 2007
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