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. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100426nat5.html |
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