 |
Home
| How It Works
| Stats
Login | Register |
|
Case: Cannot Cooperate Aisha is known as a responsible and smart student. I have known her for the last two years, but this year is the first time she is taking one of my classes. She is in my 10th grade US History class. Recently, I started using small group projects in my class. I simply want my students to learn to cooperate, exchange ideas, and produce the project together. Although Aisha is willing to take part in these small group projects, she does not want to be in groups with male students because of her religious beliefs. When she told me about this, I told her that she was in the United States and that she had to work with whoever she is in a group with. In the first group project, Aisha was in a group with three males and one female students. She simply did not participate in any of the group activities. I wonder if should reconsider my original position on this issue and accommodate Aisha by having her work only with girls. Would I be doing her a disservice? What should I do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I do not think that anyone should be forced to do anything against his or her religion. If the overall goal is to learn to cooperate, exchange ideas, and produce the project together, then I see no way why this cannot be done with a group of only females. I don't think doing this would be doing her a disservice. I think as long as she is in a public school (made that assumption) and is surrounded by both males and females, she is in fact exposed to males. However, no one should be forced to communicate or do anything that is against their religion. |
||
Rating
|
||||||||||||||||||