British School Bans Sierra Leonean Pupil Because He Might Give Class Mates Ebola
A British Catholic school has banned a nine-year-old because his classmates’ parents’ protests he might infect their kids with Ebola because he had been in Sierra Leone with his charity worker mother.
Kofi Mason-Sesay, who has joint British and Sierra Leonean nationality, was due to spend several weeks at St Simon’s Catholic Primary School in Stockport, but the placement was cancelled after ‘ignorant’ parents campaigned against Kofi or his British mother Miriam going to the school, fearing they could pass on the disease which has killed at least 678 people in Sierra Leone, DailyMail reports.
Public Health England have confirmed there is no risk in Kofi attending the 168 pupil school, but parents think otherwise.
Kofi’s mum, who has been into charity for 14 years, said she and Kofi were given the green light to travel by Public Health England, but misunderstandings over the virus has seen them treated like ‘lepers’
‘It’s heartbreaking, – Unfortunately there was so much pressure from an ignorant parent body that the school had to act.And the Oyinbos are not ready to take that right LOL! Are they right or wrong to have banned the little boy from school even after passing the 21 days incubation period???
‘The reality is it’s a difficult disease to catch and much of its spread in Africa is to do with traditional burial practices when sufferers have died.
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