Teacher is reassigned from class over hijab

An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province’s law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols. Parents at Chelsea Elementary School say they found out in a letter last week the teacher was being moved to a different position at the school. Later some discovered it was due to her hijab, which was confirmed by the teacher in an interview with local newspaper The Lowdown to Hull and Back. The secularism law, known as Bill 21, was passed in June 2019 and bans the wearing of religious symbols by teachers and other government employees deemed to be in positions of authority.