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Mum furious over child being told to remove Christian necklace
A Chorley mum is furious after teachers told her daughter to remove a necklace with a religious cross on it.
Laina Grimshaw-Brown has accused St Peter's CE Primary School, in Eaves Lane, of double standards because they allow Sikh children to wear bangles as part of their religion.
The mother-of-two, of Springs Road, Chorley, says that her eight-year-old daughter Lauren and brother Callan, five, have always worn crosses as a sign of their faith - but the school say it's a safety risk.
She said: "We're a Christian family and my children wear the necklaces underneath their tops. On Thursday Lauren was told by a teacher to take it off because apparently they're not allowed to wear jewellery.
"I could understand it if it was a fashion accessory or a High School Musical necklace but it's part of our faith."
Mrs Grimshaw-Brown complained directly to the headteacher, Helen Wright, who referred the matter to the school's chairman of governors, Father Atherton, who upheld the ban.
The unhappy mum said: "I received a letter in my child's reading folder. It said that if she had been a Sikh child she would be allowed to wear bangles because it's part of their religion.
"I've got absolutely no problem with any other religion wearing bangles or another item of jewellery but why can't my daughter wear a necklace with a cross? It's a church-led school.
"The necklace is designed to come apart if it
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