Teacher placed on leave after forcing student to wash off Ash Wednesday cross from forehead
A Davis School District spokesperson said Moana Patterson from Valley View Elementary School in Bountiful was placed on administrative leave after the incident
An elementary school teacher in Utah has been placed on administrative leave after forcing a student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross on his forehead.
A Davis School District spokesperson on Thursday said that the fourth-grade-teacher, identified as Moana Patterson from Bountiful, north of Salt Lake City, was placed on leave after an investigation into the incident, according to NBC News.
According to the boy's grandmother, Karen Fisher, the teacher told her grandson, William McLeod, that the cross was inappropriate and asked him to wash it off in front of his classmates.