Then the Shiloh Middle School teacher asked the 12-year-old if there was a bomb in her backpack, Aden added to the station.
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How the school district is responding to the incident on Channel 2 Action News at 5 p.m.
In accordance to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Abdirizak Aden stated his daughter (whose name wasn’t let go to the media) was stopped by the instructor & asked what she was carrying in her backpack.
A Muslim parent from Georgia got upset after a science teacher asked his eight-grader student if she had a bomb in her bag.
“When you grow up, you have to know what you’re doing”, Aden said of the teacher. The school’s principal apologized to the family and promised to “work” with the teacher. The girl’s father, Abdirizak Aden, told the television station that the family are Muslims from Somalia. ‘We are from Africa we are Muslims we live in America. “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. Both Aden and his daughter accepted the apology but emphasized on sensitivity training to avoid such incidents in the future. “I don’t want nobody to treat them like that” AJC quoted him as saying. “Other people’s judgments don’t matter”, he told her.
(Carmela Brown/Parent) “I don’t think that they should have asked her that because of her religion. However, based on the school’s investigation, it does not appear that the teacher made the remark with ill intent”.
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Yusof Burke, board president of the Georgia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told AJC that the teacher’s line of questioning “shows the level of Islamophobia impacting people’s relationships with one another”. “Obviously a teacher and a student should have a unique kind of relationship…It’s very disturbing to see”.
