School suspends woman over veil

[Setarime]

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

[stubacca68]

i am all in favour of this! i am sure you all know my views on this! if she dont like the decision then go back to whatever country alows it! if the kids cant hear her then why should be a teacher?

go away

[Coppaforlife]

It's easy to say she should comply (and in all actuality she should), but it's hard to comply when you feel as though you're the victim. She may feel as though she's being singled out for whatever reason...and not considering the bottom-line which is the education of the kids.

[baps]

i totally agree she should comply with rules and regulations. if she feels the need to wear her veil then i think she should be teaching in the appropriate schooling system where the children are used to seeing it. but i agree with you too copper she probably feels that she is the victim. in the schools the kids come first so if they are frightened or cant hear what they are being taught then something has to be done about it.

[Rocol]

Agree, and well done to the school for sticking to it's guns. It is about time we started to crack down on that sort of thing.

[O.G]

Agree with the above,its about time someone said something about this..totally wrong in my opinion..she should apply with the rules.

[Venus]

so she should .having a veil across her face is wrong ,when teaching children who are hard hearing learn through lip reading and body expressions and how can they do that when the face is covered.

[TGLucario]

maybe she could like cut a section of the veil, so that her speak can be heard!