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Utah girl suspended for Sikh nose pierce
Shirley Pabla told The Salt Lake Tribune she thinks there might have been an element of discrimination in the way her daughter, Suzannah, was treated by administrators at Bountiful Jr. High School.
"It's not just the nose ring. I'm starting to think it's because she's brown," Pabla said. "She's not a bad kid. She's not doing it to rebel."
Suzannah pierced her nose this month on the eve of India's Diwali holiday as a tribute to her father's Sikh family. The piercing, however, ran afoul of the school's ban on body piercings other than earrings and led to a brief suspension. School officials said they were enforcing the rules fairly and had determined the piercing was done for cultural reasons rather than religious practice.
Mrs. Pabla told the newspaper she did not have the money to challenge the detention in court and was unsure a challenge would be successful.
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This news arrived on: 10/28/2009
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10-29-2009 10:31
wrote:
Rules is rules!
10-28-2009 15:24
John Sprague wrote:
Peirceings
Cutural often is Religion oriented. I bet the Morman influance pervalant in Utah has everything to do with this. Of course that IS regligion. That is why I no longer live in Utah.
10-28-2009 14:47
Leslee in Canada wrote:
They left their homeland for the same reason your people left their homeland. For a better life.
What? You thought English was the first language on this continent? Your great great grand pappy did the same thing mine did...came over and took over.
What? You thought English was the first language on this continent? Your great great grand pappy did the same thing mine did...came over and took over.
10-28-2009 13:41
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Where is Jesse Jackson when you need him? Or the ever so Reverend Al Sharptone? If these people love their heritage so much, why did they leave their homeland? MOST of them just want to create havock on someone else's TURF!
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