Kuwaiti school fires expat teacher after including Israel in assignment

An expat teacher in Kuwait was fired after she gave her class a map of the Middle East that included Israel. The teacher, who worked for the private American Creative Academy, gave her fifth grade students a homework assignment asking them to identify different countries of the Middle East – including Israel. Initially, students and parents complained to the school, but they say nothing was done by the administration. Despite grievances, the expat teacher refused to consider popular views on Palestine and remove the map from their homework assignment, claiming this is merely a lesson in geogra…

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