A mathematics teacher of a Bengaluru school was dismissed from her job on Saturday after parents staged a protest alleging that she had made derogatory comments against minority students in the backdrop of the hijab row the previous day.
The police were called in to disperse a group of protesters outside Vidyasagar English Public School in Chandra Layout II stage and education officials conducted a probe.Classes were suspended for the day. One parent later lodged a police complaint against the teacher for hurting the religious sentiments of minority students. The parent alleged that the teacher had written derogatory words on the blackboard. When they returned home on Friday, the students narrated what had happened in the classroom to their parents who decided to stage a protest the next morning.
