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Students, parents gather in solidarity with teacher dismissed for wearing hijab

Students, parents gather in solidarity with teacher dismissed for wearing hijab

Yasmine Diaz, a third-grader, ties a ribbon to the schoolyard fence at Chelsea Elementary School in solidarity with teacher, Fatemeh Anvari, at an event she attended with her mother, Farhia Ahmed.
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