Have any of you ever been or known of a JW that either:
1. had a disfellowshipped teacher in school, or
2. was a disfellowshipped student with a JW teacher?
If so, tell me about it. What were the circumstances? What was it like? How did it turn out?
JW and Disfellowshipped in School
by 00DAD 4 Replies latest jw experiences
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blondie
Off subject?
I once had to train a df'd jw while I was still active. No problem for me or her since we were there to talk about work, not adjust each other's values or to socialize.
Unless the jw teacher was teaching "the truth" in the classroom or the df'd teacher teaching the "anti-truth", I don't see the problem. Students and teachers are not required to socialize after or during school.
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00DAD
No Blondie, it's not off subject at all, although the classroom is a bit different than the workplace as minors are involved.
I'm the DF'd teacher with the JW student. It's not a problem for me, but I wonder how it could/would be if and when the student and/or parents find out. So for they obviously don't know.
00DAD
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mamochan13
I haven't known any in school. I was a music teacher when I was DFd and lost all my JW students, but I was giving lessons from my home studio, so I suppose that was their excuse. I was also playing in a band with my brother and sister at the time. We had a contract, so they decided to honour the contract until it ran out in a few months. It was extremely difficult to work under the circumstances, however, since they would only communicate with me when we were on stage performing.
So I think much depends on interpretation of what constitutes "association". Some people have a harder time with that than others. However, a teacher/student relationship could also be seen as a power/control matter. Some parents might take the viewpoint that as a teacher you have an inappropriate amount of influence, which would place their child in danger of being corrupted by someone who is "mentally diseased"
In any case, I see it as their problem, not yours. You are providing a service, just like every other teacher in the school. Your personal belief system should have nothing to do with it, as Blondie has pointed out.
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La Capra
I D'Aed in 1987 and began teaching high school in 1992. I've had a number of JWs and it never was an issue, some knew. Most did not. One from about 8 years ago came out to our table at the restaurant where she works to sing happy birthday to someone a few weeks ago. She was borderline when she was in my class (borderline jw that is, decent enough student), but the restaurant scene is now one of my "happy places."
Interesting note, though-if a JW parent requested to have a their kid removed from a DF'ed teacher's class, for any reason relating to the DF or religion, in a public school in the United States, the school administration cannot do it. It would violate the teacher's First Amendment rights. A JW teacher would not be able to have a DFed student removed from her class for the same reason. Doesn't matter if "minors are involved." If a public school administrator did move a student from the class for that reason, he or she could get in a whole lot of really bad trouble if the non-JW found out and decided to take legal action for violation of her civil rights.
La Capra