Ask Wendy Don't Be Afraid to Question A Teacher matter.) Your daughter is old Dear Wendy: enough to maintain, even My 10-year-old daughter defend, her own beliefs in the attends Hebrew school at our face of opposing ones. She may synagogue. She recently reported not (yet) be able to shoot back that her religion teacher said that there is as much "proof" that the Passover miracles never for the "volcano theory" as happened and that she saw a TV there is for the biblical explana- show "proving" that the splitting tion of events, but your daugh- of the Red Sea was the result of ter must learn to follow her a volcanic eruption. The teacher WE NDY own compass — religious or intends to show the video to the BELZ BERG moral — no matter how much class. Meanwhile, my daughter Spec ial to external pressure is applied. is distraught and feels that she As for the teacher, speak to the Jewi sh News won't enjoy the seder this year her directly just in case your thinking that the story of daughter somehow misunderstood the Passover is a fraud. message. If there was no misunderstanding — Not sure what to do then, before the teacher can play the video This teacher has unwittingly offered and ruin Pesach for the rest of the class, you an opportunity to impress upon your speak to the director of the Hebrew School daughter how dramatically different peo- and demand the teacher's resignation. The ple's beliefs can be. She is entitled to her director is also culpable and should be point of view. (Even though she should called to task for not having properly vet- never have been allowed within a mile of ted her staff. To all you Hebrew School your daughter's Hebrew school class — directors cut there: class is in session. Do or any other Hebrew school class for that Dear Wendy: I was at the supermarket yesterday and saw a mother slap her child hard across the face. I was horrified but I did noth- ing. What should/could I have done? — Should I intervene? In a black-and-white world, the answer to your question is simple: Keep moving because it's none of your business. How would you feel if a perfect stranger stopped you in the supermarket and offered unso- licited advice about how you disciplined your child? Or, about the hazards of the junk food in your shopping cart? There are a lot of parents who still believe that spank- ing is the best way to teach a child a lesson they will not soon forget. However, I will say that certain actions call for a reaction. You might not stop someone loading junk foods into her shopping cart, but it is your moral oblig- ation to stop someone who is stealing them. 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