ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Federal investigators have found that a school counselor at Tappan Middle School referred to a Muslim student as a “terrorist” in November 2023.
It happened when the counselor told a Palestinian student in her office she does “not negotiate with terrorists” after he asked to leave to get a drink of water.
Amy V. Doukoure, the lawyer representing the family, told CBS News Detroit the student’s family complained to the school and the board of education, but were told it was an employment issue and the case was closed.
“They were devastated, quite honestly,” said Doukoure, a staff attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan Chapter. “The student didn’t feel comfortable going to school anymore. And then when things progressed throughout the school year, there were instances where the child felt like he had been kind of retaliated against or kind of singled out because they knew that he had made this complaint.”