Sonawane, Vishakha. “Philadelphia School District Sued for Religious Discrimination.” HNGN. HNGN, 6 Mar. 2014. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. <http://www.hngn.com/articles/25910/20140306/philadelphia-school-district-sued-religious-discrimination.htm>.
A worker for a Philadelphia School district has been “discriminated” against. The school has a new policy where no employee could have a beard more than a quarter length. The employ explained that it was part of his religion and that he could not cut it. The school employ of 27 years was rebuked.
This related to our world history class. We talked about many different occasions where people were discriminated for their religion. We talked about how the Jews were discriminated on many occasions.
I think if you can not comply with the work place rules you should not work there. I think to be fair the employ should be grandfathered in. If the rule was made before he had the job it would be understandable. This event affects me because I have been victim to religious discrimination. I do not see this as religious discrimination. Yes the beard is part of his religion the rule was made because of reasons that do not pertain to religion.
What is the central idea of the passage and how is it developed and refined throughout the selection?
The central idea is to inform readers on what had happened to a school employ and why it matters. The author gives facts that allows the readers to understand why the issue is important. One way the author does this is by including how long the victim had worked at the school. The author said “he started working for the school 27 years ago” (sonawane). The author allows you to realize that he is a worker that devoted a lot of his time to that school by that quote. Also the author said “Siddiq Abu-Bakr, the school police officer, said his religion required him to maintain a beard and he cannot cut it” (sonawane). The author said that the man was a school officer so that you will know that he is a good man that helped out. Also the author lets you know that he can not cut it because of his religion. The central idea was to get you on the side of the employ and the author did that with developed facts.
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| Nevit, Dilmen. “Fear ignorance hate.” Photograph. Wikimedia commons. Mediawiki, 2011. Web. 6 Mar 2014. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fear_ignorance_hate.gif>. |
This was a really good blog. It had detail enough to give us the central idea, but not to load us down with information. I think you picked a very interesting topic considering the diversity of religions of the world, and the large amounts of growing beards. It is little things that put people in bad situations, and even (like in this case) out of jobs.
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