A Seth Boyden Elementary School second grade student suffered “emotional harm” when her teacher removed her hijab in the classroom in front of classmates, a lawsuit against the district and the teacher by the Wyatt family said.
South Orange-Maplewood School District teacher Tamar Herman approached the student, who was sitting at her desk in the classroom on Oct. 6, 2021, “grabbed her hijab, pulling it back, touching her face and hair and exposing S.W.’s uncovered head to the class,” said the lawsuit.
The child then yelled, “That’s my hijab,” read the legal complaint, filed March 4 by the family’s attorney, Robert Tarver.
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