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Sarika not to return to kara-banning school
WSN Network

LONDON: Sarika Singh, the Sikh teenager girl who won a High Court battle against her school after she was banned from wearing a religious bangle will not return there this term, her mother has said. The 14-year-old has decided not to return to Aberdare Girls’ School, in south Wales, which had cast her out of the class for wearing the Kara.

In July she took her case to the High Court in London which ruled that the school had broken race and equality laws by barring her for breaking its strict rules on the wearing of jewellery.

The school agreed to re-admit Sarika at the start of the new term and to allow her to wear the slim steel bracelet worn by many Sikhs as a sign of their identity and faith but she has decided to study at nearby Mountain Ash Comprehensive School where she studied earlier this year and which never created any hassle over the Kara.

Mrs Singh said the family was disappointed Aberdare Girls’ School had not contacted them since the court case.

Her mother said Sarika may not get fair treatment there and the school has not apologised. Sarika is of mixed Welsh and Punjabi origin. Justice Silber, sitting at the High Court, had said the school was guilty of indirect discrimination under race relations and equality laws.

3 September 2008
 

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