Is Facebook ever the best place to go to find the truth? Balance? Fairness?
Yet, that’s the route the mother of a Hamilton County Schools student took recently in claiming her daughter’s middle-school Bible history teacher uttered an antisemitic remark.
In addition to Facebook, the mother also sought to have her story aired on a local television station, telling this newspaper she couldn’t comment much on the situation because the station had asked her not to talk to other media.
On Friday, the school district released the results of a review of the situation, saying, “We cannot conclude that the teacher intended to actually instruct her students about how to ‘torture’ a Jewish person (which had been alleged), and none of the students interviewed who recalled the comment interpreted it negatively.”
The teacher in question, her attorney said in a statement, is willing to meet with the mother, the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga or the Anti-Defamation League if it would promote a productive dialogue.