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Florida teacher fired for disrupting praying Muslim students [1]

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Date: 2022-12-11  

A viral TikTok video shows a group of Muslim students being interrupted by a teacher at Franklin Academy, a charter school in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

“Hold on. This is my office, and you all doing all this magic,” the teacher is heard saying. At one point, the teacher walked through the students and moved someone’s hand away with her foot. “I believe in Jesus, so I’m interrupting the floor. Excuse me,” the teacher said.

x A teacher from Florida, U.S., has been fired after a video posted on social media showed her intentionally interrupting Muslim students as they were praying.



The incident happened on Wednesday at Franklin Academy, a public charter school South Florida. pic.twitter.com/MWVcqnCBd4 — 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) December 11, 2022

Officials at Franklin Academy say they investigated the incident just after they became aware of the video’s existence. Needless to say, the unnamed teacher is now out of a job. Here’s the statement the school made to the press.

Earlier today, a very troubling TikTok video was shared with our leadership team. The video appears to show a teacher interrupting students during a moment of prayer. Upon receipt of the video, organizational and school leadership began immediately investigating the situation. Franklin Academy does not tolerate discriminatory behavior. As many know, we are an International Baccalaureate (IB) school system, and as part of the IB initiatives to which we are committed, Franklin aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural and racial understanding and respect. We not only look for our student body to develop these traits but for our faculty and staff to exemplify them as well. While we do not discuss personnel matters, we can share with you that the teacher in question is no longer a member of the Franklin Academy staff. We thank our parents for partnering with us and trusting us with their child(ren) and their education. Through the continued communication that we foster as a team, our schools can only become stronger.

So far, many parents have agreed with the decision.

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