Miranda Washinawatok, 12, is a student at Sacred Heart Catholic Academy.
Miranda Washinawatok, 12, was suspended from a basketball game after being reprimanded for using the Menominee language in class
By ICTMN Staff: February 7, 2012
Miranda attends Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Shawano, Wisconsin. She was suspended after saying two phrases in her classmate in her native language.
A teacher exploded at her asking, "How she would feel is he spoke in Polish and she didn't understand?" The school later stated that this was handled extremely poorly and she never should have got suspended. Schools are there to help students reach full potential and increase diversity, not punish someone for being their culture to school.
I don't understand why this became such a dig deal in the first place. People speak in different languages all the time to their friends in and out of school. I have never heard of a teacher acting so irrational. I wonder if anything is going to be done about his behavior in the situation? Is the school going to apologize to the young girl for the troubles it caused her? Are they going to remove the suspension from her school record?
I have no idea that her speaking in her native language to a friend had anything to do with the teacher who apparently butted into the conversation. I went to a Catholic school and never heard of a teacher just butting into a students conversation unless it was wildly inappropriate. I understand that people fear what they don't know, but this just appeared to be complete ignorance or maybe even worse, racist.
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