Teacher suspended after allegedly calling her 14-year-old Muslim student a raghead Taliban and a terrorista

Teacher suspended after allegedly calling her 14-year-old Muslim student a
raghead Taliban and a terrorista

Posted: 21 Mar 2015 08:35 AM PDT
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A French teacher from Florida has been suspended for five days without pay
after she was accused of calling her 14-year-old Muslim student a raghead
Taliban when he walked into class wearing a hoodie.
The administrative complaint filed against Maria Valdes also claimed that,
when the teacher called on on Deyab-Houssein Wardani, she once asked Okay
the Taliban, what is the answer?
It also alleged that the Cypress Bay High School teacher would say Ah no!
The Taliban is here when he walked into the classroom and would refer to
him as a terrorista, which is Spanish for terrorist.



A French teacher from Florida has been suspended for five days without pay
for allegedly calling her 14-year-old Muslim student Deyab-Houssein Wardani
(pictured) a raghead Taliban

Deyab-Houssein, who did not know the Taliban referred to a terrorist
organization until he asked his parents, said the other students in his
class laughed at the nickname.
I would not expect this from a teacher, teachers are supposed to set an
example for their students, he told the Sun Sentinel.
Its very sad that people still think like that, that all Muslims are your
average daily terrorist.
Valdes will also have to undergo a diversity training program.
The punishment is not enough for Deyab-Housseins father Youssef, who said
that, at a minimum, he believes the teacher should have been suspended for
a year without pay  if not fired.


Wardani said the five-day suspension amounted to a vacation. He made his
anger loud and clear after the punishment was passed down at the Broward
School Boards meeting on Tuesday.
The father told school administrations they should all be removed for
bullying, according to Local 10.
Superintendent Robert W. Runcie, who filed the administrative complaint
after he was notified of Valdes alleged comments, said the matter was taken
very seriously and was addressed with the appropriate sense of urgency.
I take a lot of exception to any statement, or suggestion that somehow this
administration and school board did nothing or was ever lax in our
response, he said, according to the Miami Herald.






The punishment is not enough for Deyab-Housseins father Youssef, who said
that, at a minimum, he believes the teacher should have been suspended for
a year without pay  if not fired
During the meeting Runcie, a Jamaican immigrant, said that he had
personally been affected by racism.
He shared the story of when he watched his mother get shot in the face by a
man who blamed Jamaican immigrants for his inability to get a job.
Wardani said this was not the first time his son, who is half Lebanese and
half Moroccan, has experienced discrimination.
In the fourth-grade a school bus driver who knew Deyab-Houssein was Muslim
told him were going to wipe you off the face of this planet and turn you
into dust and sand, Wardani told the Sun Sentinel.
Although the school board voted unanimously to discipline the teacher,
Wardani was not done fighting after the meeting was over.












I promise you for the rest of my life, until my dying breath, Im going to
make sure no child goes through what my Deyab-Houssein had to go through,
said Wardani, who has reached out to the FBI





This is motivating me to work harder, Deyab-Houssein said. To prove that I
am not a random guy who you can call a Taliban

I promise you for the rest of my life, until my dying breath, Im going to
make sure no child goes through what my Deyab-Houssein had to go through,
he told the Miami Herald.
Wardani said he has reached out to the FBI.
District administrators said the degree of punishment that could be leveled
against Valdes was limited because of an agreement with the Teachers Union.
As for Deyab-Houssein, he said he is very proud of his father and is
getting support from his peers, but that he now feels a strange vibe from
his French teacher, like she doesnt want me to be there.
This is motivating me to work harder, he said. To prove that I am not a
random guy who you can call a Taliban.