Reflection

The article that I chose for my first reflection paper is about the investigation of Southwest Airlines removing 109 Jewish high school students off of their flight due to being non-compliant. The students were using their mobile devices when told not to as well as not staying in their seats before taking off. However, the executive director of the Yeshiva of Flatbush School did not agree with the flight crews’ actions. One of the teachers stated that there were a small group of students in the back of the plane that were being disruptive but should not have caused the flight crew to remove all the students from the flight. The school is now bringing forth an investigation on Southwest Airlines for discrimination. My first reaction to this article was shock. I couldn’t believe at first that they would accuse the airline for discriminating against Jewish people. I felt that the school wouldn’t take control of their students’ actions and used their oppressed religion to their advantage. It made me think of other circumstances where people would use their religion, race, or sex to manipulate the system and hide from their actions and/or faults. The FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, has rules and regulations against passengers being non-compliant. If they felt that the students were not being safe and putting other passengers in danger, they would have the right ask them to leave the flight.
I then started to think critically. After reading through the article again, I paid more attention to the actual situation and to both sides of the story. Looking at both view points for the Yeshiva of Flatbush School and Southwest Airlines, there is not enough information on the situation to be bias towards either one. No one knows exactly how the students were acting and whether or not it was enough for the flight crew to kick all 109 students off the flight. The school could have also been through another form of discrimination in their past that was similar to this