SALT LAKE CITY—A teacher in Utah has been placed on administrative leave after forcing a Catholic student to wash an Ash Wednesday cross off his forehead.
William McLeod, 9, had just returned to school at Valley View Elementary near Salt Lake City after attending Catholic mass when his fourth-grade teacher called the ash marking “inappropriate” and gave him a hand wipe to clean it off in front of his classmates, according to the McLeod’s grandmother Karen Fisher.
