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| Stephen Opayemi |
Stephen Opayemi, A Nigerian whose daughter was asked by her
school in Connecticut to stay away for 21 days over fear of Ebola has taken the
matter to court. The ban was placed on Opayemi’s daughter over fear of Ebola,
and this came after the girl attended a wedding in Nigeria.
Opayemi filed the lawsuit in a federal court in New Haven,
Connecticut. He asked a judge to order the Meadowside Elementary School, in
Milford, Connecticut, to immediately permit his daughter to return to her
third-grade class.
“We’re hoping this will get her back into school as soon as
possible,” the girl’s mother, Ikeolapo Opayemi, said in a brief interview at
their home.
A neighbour of the Opayemi family, Prashant Batil, said his
6-year-old plays often with Ikeoluwa and that he believed the school system was
overreacting.
“The parents are extremely responsible people, and if they
say she does not have Ebola, I would have no reluctance for my daughter to play
with her,” Batil said in an interview.
African communities in the United States have reported an
increasing amount of discrimination since the Ebola epidemic began. At least
two speeches by Liberians have been canceled by U.S. universities, and a
college in Texas refused admission to Nigerian students over worries about the
virus.
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