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  • Vegetarian Teen Disqualified from GCSE Exam Over Islamophobia for Criticising Halal Meat [UK]

    08/22/2019 6:09:17 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 20 replies
    iNews ^ | 8/18/19 | Alina Polianskaya
    The exam board admitted it 'did not reach the right conclusion'A vegetarian GCSE student was disqualified from a Religious Studies exam after her comments about halal meat were mistaken by examiners as being Islamophobic. 16-year-old Abigail Ward was accused of making “obscene racial comments … throughout the exam paper” by exam board OCR, which accused her of a “malpractice offence”, according to The Telegraph. But it emerged that the comments in the June exam made by the student from Gildredge House school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, stemmed from her being a “very strict” vegetarian. The disqualification was overturned after an...