A five-year-old Sikh boy has had his sacred hair cut with scissors by another pupil at his school in southeast London, sparking outrage from his family and community groups.

In a Monday news release from the Sikh Coalition, the group said school leaders committed to a plan to both address the case of this student and work to address and prevent bias-based bullying.

Religious bullying in US schools is a growing problem, particularly for Sikh and Muslim students, who often face discrimination, harassment, and even violence. Studies show that Sikh children wearing ...

Students targeted a Sikh high schooler with racial slurs and called him a terrorist, while school officials failed to stop the abuse, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court.

Whiteland Community High School is a school of roughly 2,000 students and nearly 74% are white, per state data from the 2020-21 school year. Sikh Coalition: 'a pattern of bullying' ...

The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that orthodox Sikh students could carry traditional daggers to school. The court said Sikh orthodoxy requires the wearing of the daggers, known as kirpans. Canada ...

The new weapons policy, adopted on March 21, allows for Hopkinton Public Schools students initiated in the Sikh faith to carry a kirpan — a small, dull blade that Sikhs carry as part of their ...

Reporter John Laurenson reports from a small community of Sikh immigrants in Paris, where many are worried that a new law curbing religious expression in public schools may force their young men ...

An estimated 100,000 Sikh Americans now live in the Garden State, but a recent survey found that schools rarely teach about the faith. Residents applaud Hackensack's vote to reject 19-story ...

WHITELAND, Ind. — The Sikh Coalition is hosting an awareness training for more than 100 administrators, staff and educators at Whiteland Community High School. The goal is to ensure what happened to ...

Hopkinton schools to allow students initiated in Sikh faith to carry kirpans 00:23. HOPKINTON - The Hopkinton school district may be the first in Massachusetts to allow students initiated in Sikh ...