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A Muslim woman has been suspended by a school in West Yorkshire after she insisted on wearing a veil in lessons.
Bilingual support worker Aishah Azmi, 24, was asked to remove the veil after pupils found it hard to understand her during English language lessons.
Headfield Church of England Junior School, in Dewsbury, said she could wear the veil outside the classroom.
Ms Azmi refused and was suspended pending the outcome of an employment tribunal, Kirklees Council said.
Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik backed the school's decision, saying: "In schools the top priority has got to be the education of our children.
"I fully support the decision of the education authority and the school in requesting the classroom assistant remove her veil when teaching primary school children.
"I believe the education authority has bent over backwards to be accommodating and has been extremely reasonable and sensible in the decision it has come to.
"There is no religious obligation whatsoever for Muslim women to cover themselves up in front of primary school children."
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If she cannot be understood by the children because she wants to dress like a ninja then imo the school were right to suspend her, if it had been a Weegie that refused to slow down so the children could understand them they would have been suspended. As the MP said the important thing in a school is the education of the children!!!! Good on them