(CBC) Some family members at Park West School in Halifax along with local advocacy groups are planning protests after they say children were told they couldn’t wear a traditional Palestinian scarf for the school’s culture day.
The school principal and the Halifax Regional Centre for Education acknowledged there was an “incident” at the school, but have denied there is a ban on the keffiyeh.
Maamoun Alhindi, who has a daughter at the middle school, says his nephew was called to the principal’s office on March 1 and was told to take off his keffiyeh because it was a “sign of war.”
Alhindi said the Grade 7 student tried to explain the cultural significance of the black and white scarf, but eventually took it off and returned to class. Alhindi said other students had similar experiences that day.
