Friday, November 30, 2007

You Think Your Teaching Job is Tough

Most of us have, at least, never had our photos burned by a street mob to protest something we did in our classrooms. This British teacher in Sudan has. She is serving a fifteen-day jail sentence for allowing her students to call a teddy bear Mohammed.
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Anonymous said...

I've been following this and just shaking my head. But of course, I have very minimal cross-cultural experience, so I'm doing it mostly from ignorance, while trying to be mindful that there must be some serious issues behind it. BBC News had a recent analysis speculating that Sudan is doing it to intentionally provoke the West. You gotta wonder...

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