Union condemns hate, supports teacher following incident in Duluth
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By:Brady Slater
Saturday October 3, 2020
Incident in September in Duluth saw group of men in pickup target Qorsho Hassan.
Qorsho Hassan was named the 2020 Teacher of the Year by Education Minnesota. (Photo courtesy of Education Minnesota)
She appeared at a Twin Cities news conference earlier Friday organized by St. Paul-based Faith in Minnesota. During the news conference she said she had been in Duluth last weekend and explained what happened.
I was in Duluth this past weekend. This rhetoric isn’t the only reason why a group of white males violently chanted "white power” & "four more years” from a pick up truck as they circled around me. He is a symptom of the systemic racism in America & we need to own that ugly truth https://t.co/tI0IQGi6MD
— miss qorsho (@MNTOY2020) October 1, 2020
Specht urged others to vote in record numbers.
A Burnsville elementary school teacher, Hassan was named this year's Teacher of the Year by Education Minnesota in August.
She's a fourth grade teacher at Echo Park Elementary School in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District.
"It means a lot,” Hassan said of the award at the time. "It’s very validating.”
Hassan grew up in Ohio a Muslim girl of Somali descent. Hassan has said she faced a lot of Islamophobia in school and didn’t see herself reflected in the teachers she had.
The Duluth Police Department has not responded to a News Tribune inquiry about the incident.
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Union condemns hate, supports teacher following incident in Duluth
he statewide teachers union Friday stood by a Muslim teacher who said she was harassed in Duluth on Sept. 26. Education Minnesota said it was joining 2020 Teacher of the Year Qorsho Hassan in "condemning hateful rhetoric from certain politici