The author visiting her daughter’s preschool classroom to teach pre-K4 students about Ramadan.I began wearing a hijab at 12 years old, one year after 9/11. Almost overnight, I went from blending in to being stared at and bullied, as if my scarf had erased the girl my classmates previously knew.
When my daughter started school, I worried about how she would be treated in the classroom. I wanted her to take pride in her faith and her Muslim identity. I wanted her to feel she belonged just as she is.
And for a little while, I started to believe that was possible.
When my daughter was in preschool, her teacher called and asked, “What can we do for Ramadan?” So I came into the classroom and taught a lesson about Ramadan. Small ha...
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