Sikhs girl\'s hair cut off in school

NEW YORK: In yet another incident of bias against Sikh children, a twelve year old girl\'s hair was cut by another student. The incident happened with Gurprit Kaur, a student at Public School 219 in Flushing, Queens.

This comes only five days after Jagmohan Singh Premi, was punched in the face when a student intentionally attempted to remove his Patka (smaller turban) at Richmond Hill High School, in Richmond Hill, Queens and just an year after Harpal Singh\'s hair was forcibly cut by another student in a city school.The Sikh Coalition along with Gurprit Kaur and Jagmohan Singh Premi\'s parents are organizing a march through the streets of Richmond Hill, Queens on June 30. The march will end with a rally at Richmond Hill High School, the school where Jagmohan Singh Premi suffered a bias-based assault this month.

The purpose of the march is to push the New York Department of Education to end bias-based harassment of Sikh children in city schools. The Sikh Coalition has called on all Sikhs to march with them or sign the community petition to Schools Chancellor, Joel Klein asking him to take action to protect Sikh children from bias-based harassment in city schools.

In a recent civil rights report released by the Sikh Coalition it was found that more than 60% of the over 400 New York City Sikh public school students the Coalition surveyed suffered bias-based harassment or violence in city schools.

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