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Discriminated spoon-eating Pinoy pupil wins suit 04/26/2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

Discriminated spoon-eating Pinoy pupil wins suit


04/26/2010

The Filipino boy who was discriminated and humiliated in school for his eating habits was awarded $17,000 by a Canadian court for damages.

The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal reversed its earlier decision and ruled in favor of 11-year-old Luc Caganoc and awarded him damages for the discriminatory act committed against him by a lunch supervisor four years ago.
Cagadoc, who was then a seven-year-old second grade pupil at the Roxboro school in Montreal, Canada, has been isolated from other students several times during lunchtime and was made to eat alone for using a spoon and fork. Eating with a spoon and fork is a customary Filipino manner.

The Cagadoc family complained against the school board after the school’s lunch supervisor reprimanded the boy and told him that he eats like a pig. The incident sparked condemnation by Filipinos abroad.... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100426nat5.html

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