Family Claims Daughter’s 2nd-Grade Teacher Snatched Hijab Off Her Head In New Jersey School

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — A New Jersey family is speaking out after they say a teacher pulled the hijab off the head of a 7-year old Muslim girl.

Sumayyah Wyatt’s mother, Cassandra Wyatt stated that her daughter doesn’t want to wear the Muslim garb following the incident at Seth Boyden Elementary School.

“I have to go introduce her to a different world that I’ve been trying to protect her from,” Cassandra Wyatt shared.

The family’s lawyer says that the second-grader would always come to school with her headscarf worn, but on Wednesday the teacher wanted her to remove it and snatched it off of her head.

“Ultimately, the teacher succeeds in pulling the hijab off her head, followed by a bizarre statement which is, ‘Your hair is beautiful,'” the attorney said. “It is incredibly disturbing. It is very, very, symbolic of disregard of her religion and certainly something that has affected my clients overall.”

Cassandra said she raised her daughter telling her that her hijab is her protection.

“Now she’s asked me, ‘Well, if this is my protection, my teacher took this off of my head.’ So how can you explain to your child?” she shared.

The New Jersey Councilman has compared this situation to “Harrassment” and “assault”. “The hijab is much like any other article of clothing for a Muslim woman. To remove that publicly can be very humiliating,” said Selaedin Maksut, CAIR-NJ’s executive director.

The school has not revealed the teachers identity at the moment. #Socialites what are your thoughts on this?