Lizzie, the teacher, planned for her class to make Father’s Day cards. Oh! But she had forgotten that Samantha’s father was dead. The class couldn’t possibly make the cards, said Lizzie. It would be like rubbing Samantha’s face in it.
Lizzie, the teacher, planned for her class to make Mother’s Day cards. Oh! But she had forgotten that Jonathan’s mother was dead. The class couldn’t possibly make the cards, said Lizzie. It would be like rubbing Jonathan’s face in it.
Lizzie, the teacher, planned for her class to make Memorial Day cards. Oh! But she had forgotten that Angela’s aunt was killed in Afghanistan. The class couldn’t possibly make the cards, said Lizzie. It would be like rubbing Angela’s face in it.
Lizzie, the teacher, planned for her class to make Christmas cards. Oh! But she had forgotten that Tareq’s uncle was a Sunni from Jordan. The class couldn’t possibly make the cards, said Lizzie. It would be like rubbing Tareq’s face in it.
At last! said Lizzie. Good morning class! Today is Buddha’s Birthday in Nepal. No one here is a Buddhist I believe. No one is from Nepal. Let’s all make a card!
Weave a Web 
Political correctness at it’s worst!!!
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Thanks! How can you be so callous!!!
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Oh the perils of being a teacher!
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In the past pupils would bring the teacher an apple. That’s why everything was alright back then!
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Or the teachers didn’t really care whether it was alright or not!
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True!
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The snake that cannot cast its skin has to die. F. Nietzsche
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The dinosaur which adapted by growing a thicker skin also died!
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I was thinking of uncles in Jordan…
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Well I have a nephew-in-law who was from Jordan but is currently in prison for child abuse…
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You have got to be kidding!
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And another nephew-in-law is a Fijian-Indian who is also in prison for holding up several petrol stations!
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Hmm… Now those could be clues to the fatalistic streak of yours.
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Well it just gets worse – I have a nephew-in-law who is an Australian.
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As long as you are not linked to a Pakistani or Osama, I will let it all pass…
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I’m warming to that teacher. Her ability to find an excuse not to do things is almost legendary. If only politicians would follow her lead; not every day, just occasionally; maybe they’d shut up for a while.
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I agree. I think if more teachers (and less lawyers) became politicians then the world would be filled with a greater sense of sensitivity. Wellington (NZ) has just had a production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in which they replaced the word “Israel” with the word “kindness”. If only the world had more people who did that.
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I’m trying to imagine the results of a global find and replace – did Joseph become a leader of the kindnessites?
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He probably learnt to be kind when he was in Egypt…
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In the case of the Memorial Day card – it should have been made. That’s the idea of that day – to remember those who have sacrificed for us. I get the point about PC dilemmas for teachers, but things can get pushed too far these days.
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Exactly – the time may well come when no can open there mouth about anything!
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Oh, I thought that was NOW! I’m ALWAYS being corrected!!
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LOL!
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Ah, the bindings of political correctness. How did we get to this point?
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The Australians did it good – when it came to the “horror” of being descended from a convict, they turned it into “Oh how sad… you’re not descended from a convict”!
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