Yesterday in Shawano, WI a 7 grade girls basketball player was benched right before her game. Why you ask? Well she was benched because she said the words "I Love You" to her friends in her native tongue during class before her game. Her coaches and teachers reprimanded her and chose to keep her from playing in the game that evening at her school, but now it has become a large language debate. The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay now owes an apology to her and her family for not only reprimanding her for a controversial reason, but also disrespecting her, her language, and her family. Things are said to be solved with a simple apology, but what do you think? Should this ever have even been a problem, reprimanding someone for speaking native tongue?
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1138079--native-girl-punished-for-speaking-her-language
Did they think that she said something "bad" in her language? Before judging and punishing her for what they think she might have actually said they should of asked and found out first before going through with what they did. This isn't right at all!
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