A Hardin County girl was suspended last fall following an incident after another student attempted to remove her hijab – a punishment her mother and the Council on American-Islamic Relations say was harsher than what was given to the boy they say initiated the confrontation. Kenneisha Turner Wright, said her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for three days after the Oct. 25 incident while the other student involved was back in class at Vine Grove’s James T. Alton Middle School the next day. The discrepancy in punishments was unfair, Wright contends, and the incident has remained on her daughter’s permanent record, forcing her to miss school events she’d looked forward to including an end-of-the-year field trip. The Islamic relations group, which called the case a “possible hate crime,” said in a release that Wright was able to privately view a video of the incident, though it did not include audio — which she believes exists, because she said school personnel told her what was said. The organization said it has pushed the school district to re-evaluate disciplinary actions against the student and expunge her record. FULL ARTICLE