British Teachers Union Wrestles with Tolerance in the Face of Terrorism

EDUCATION

* Teaching tolerance amid tension *
The BBC's Mike Baker asks how schools can handle ethnic tensions when a bomber was a learning mentor.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/education/4687417.stm

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Are our teachers and their unions going to remain silent in the face of this issue? One of our great losses at Brooklyn College was of a student from Bangladesh whose family was denied refugee status after 9/11 who was forced to flee to Canada where she is now getting on board. She is an advisor to my student list -- Neemarie Alam, cited as one of those (then a student at Stuyvesant High School overlooking the World Trade Center) who was horrified by the destruction of lives there:

http://www.youthcomm.org/NYC%20Features/Nov2001/NYC-2001-11-15.htm

Nee is one of the advisors to our Student Concerns Yahoo group who is available to assist others in this terrible predicament.
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