Connection after Connection after Connection

On Friday in class we watched the movie about Free Speech. One of the very interesting stories was about Debbie Almontaser, the Muslim woman in New York who tried to open a dual language school, and got accused of many things. She eventually was forced to resign and had her life ruined by this situation. She had the best of intents and never did anything wrong. I thought this story was very touching because I can't imagine how hard she must have worked to build up this new school and now all of her efforts were wasted and she got so much criticism for doing something good for the community. I thought about how unfair people can be to one another, and how innocent people get bad reputations so quickly. On another note, I was casually on the phone last night with my friend who goes to Stevenson High School, and we ended up talking about the exact same concept as I had been thinking about: innocent people getting bad reputations quickly. One of the Deans at Stevenson was asked to resign because he had been accused of inappropriate texting to one of the students. I had not heard about this, and it only happened in April of 2012. He had been the Dean there since 2008 and according to my friend, was the nicest man in the world. I heard the real story from my friend, not the ones that are in papers or online, but the true story, and all I could feel was pity for this poor man who just had some bad luck. I think this connection is important for me to make that I cannot believe everything I hear from any source, and accusations like the one made on Debbie Almontaser happen too often and even in my own area. I will be careful next time I judge someone just because of something I read about them or hear about them.