A complaint has been lodged against a teacher of a Brussels high school for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks in the classroom.
According to Belgian daily newspaper�La Derniere Heure, which broke the story, the 16-year-old Jewish female student complained that the mathematics teacher fixed her in the eyes and said: �”We should put you all on freight wagons.”
The teacher also reportedly told another student with a Polish-sounding last name to �go back to Poland� while imitating a German accent.
The student, according to the report, told the teacher that �one does not joke about such subjects.�The student’s father wrote to the school principal and� the teacher was summoned to give an explanation. Four days after the incident, the teacher said publicly at school, �I did not mean to say it, and I apologized to anyone shocked by it.�
But the father considered this insufficient apology and lodged a complaint, with the support of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, to the Police.
“These words violate the sanctuary that a school should be,” said Fawzia Hariche, Brussels Deputy Mayor in charge of education. She asked for a report on the incident which might be followed by sanctions against the teacher.
(Source: EJP)
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This teacher should have demonstrated what she preaches:- i.e. she should have boarded the freight wagon of a freight train and gone to Poland herself, of-course on a 1 way ticket.