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A Muslim teenager who was banned from taking A-levels at a leading comprehensive because she started to wear a niqab has moved schools.
The unnamed 16-year-old said she was too 'upset, hurt and angry' to go back to Camden School for Girls after it refused to allow her to wear the full Islamic veil which only reveals her eyes.
The girl reportedly left the north London state school in tears after being told she could not wear the niqab and then decided to move to one that allows it.
Last night, an online petition had gathered more than 1,000 signatures demanding that 'Islamophobia' at the school stop and that she be allowed to wear the veil.
The school is rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted and alumnae include Gordon Brown's wife Sarah, actress Emma Thompson and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.
It has no uniform and is famous for a liberal approach to education, but it said the niqab contravened its 'appearance policy'.
The girl, who has attended Camden Girls for the past five years and took her GCSEs there, yesterday said the niqab was not 'un-British'.
'I was born in Britain. I know perfect English, I enjoy doing the normal, typical things like drinking tea and eating biscuits,' she told the Evening Standard.
'Britain claims to be multicultural, meaning they accept different kinds of people.'
She added: 'I feel if people knew how friendly and social we are, they wouldn't say it's un-British.'
The girl said the school told her that dress 'which does not allow teacher-student interactions' was against its rules.
Read more: Teenage girl quits school in row over veil: Pupil, 16, who started wearing niqab moves to complete her A-Levels because she is too 'upset, hurt and angry' to go back | Daily Mail Online
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