At security debriefings, Aimen Dean and his family fell in love with the Highlands. Three years later, they feel rejected
On 14 October, Dean and his wife were summoned to an urgent online meeting with the school’s headteacher, Alex Hems, and a senior colleague. The couple were told that several parents had raised concerns about his presence, fearing he could be a target for assassination on school grounds. They were asked to alter their daughter’s drop-off and pickup times and, according to Dean, to delete a photograph of her in her school dress from Dean’s social media accounts.
Repeatedly late for class, his daughter was allegedly shouted at by a member of staff. That, the couple say, deeply damaged her confidence. Dean recalls his daughter telling them: “They aren’t kind. They keep shouting at me, ‘Sit down, sit down’. Why do I have to go to school here? Why does the school hate me?”
That shocked them profoundly, he said. It felt like a total rejection, one they feared could be repeated at another British school or town. Rather than risk relocating, Saadia told Dean she wanted to sell up and leave the UK. A week later, the couple told St George’s they were leaving.
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