February 5, 2012

Student May Have Been Benched for Speaking Menominee

From http://www.shawanoleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=30309&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=27&S=1

Parents of a child at Sacred Heart Catholic School are upset about the school's decision to bench the girl for "attitude issues" after she spoke a few words in the Menominee language at school.

The seventh-grader's mother, Tanaes Washinawatok, said her daughter, Miranda, was not allowed to play in the basketball game Jan. 19 after being reprimanded that day for using the Menominee language during a homeroom supervised by teacher Julie Gurta.

Later in the day Miranda was not allowed to play in a basketball game. Washinawatok said assistant coach Billie Joe Duquaine, a preschool teacher at the school, told Miranda she was benched because of an "attitude issue."

Read three articles about this incident:
http://www.shawanoleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=30309&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=27&S=1
http://www.nbc26.com/news/local/138452384.html?page=1
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120202/GPG0101/202020566/Shawano-principal-apologizes-benching-student-speaking-Menominee-class-read-letter?odyssey=mod|defcon|text|FRONTPAGE

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