A Utah teacher forced a student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead.
A teacher in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah was placed on administrative leave after she forced a Catholic student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead.
"The actions were unacceptable," Williams said."No student should ever be asked or required to remove an ash cross from his or her forehead." In Utah, Catholics are the minority. The 330,000 Catholics in the state account for about 10 percent of the population, according to Jean Hill at the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City.
"We understand that mistakes happen," Hill said in a statement."The diocese is also very grateful to the young student who used the situation to educate his teacher about a part of his faith and its importance to him."
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