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US teacher asks 13-year-old Muslim student if she has a bomb
[ARABNEWS] The father of a Muslim middle school student says a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. Somalia-born Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb."The teacher said she knew her joke went too far, especially because of 'the things happening in the world right now,'" Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) quoted the daughter as saying. "It was very disrespectful. I came there to learn... At the end of the day I will still get my A or B and leave her class," she said. Aden told AJC that his daughter was upset when she sent an SMS to tell him about the incident. Sloan Roach, a Gwinnett County Public Schools spokeswoman, said the teacher's comment was inappropriate and the school's principal has apologized to the family. She said the comment came as the teacher was telling students to put away their backpacks and school officials don't believe it was made with ill intent. Aden, a truck driver and grocery store owner, said he is going to pull out his daughter out from the school. "We are from Africa, we are Muslims, we live in America. I didn't teach my children to hate people or to think they are better than other people. I don't want nobody to treat them like that," AJC quoted him as saying. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-13 |
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