Pupils suspended for `Kick a Jew Day`

Pupils at a school have been suspended for taking part in `Kick a Jew Day`.

New York: Pupils at a school in Florida have been suspended after taking part in a `Kick a Jew Day`. Ten students at North Naples Middle School were sent home for a day after a girl told the head teacher that she believed she had been kicked for being Jewish, prompting further instances to come to light, a news daily reports.

Florida passed strict anti-bullying laws last year and schools that do not do enough to stop it risk losing their state funding. Margaret Jackson, the school`s head teacher, has responded to the kicking incident by setting aside the first 20 minutes of each day to teaching students – aged 12 to 15 – about kindness, respect and ways of preventing bullying. David Barkey of the Florida Anti-Defamation League said the organisation had been consulted over the incident. ANI