A school district in Houston has disciplined several teachers after a student received a mock award naming her "most likely to become a terrorist”.
Certificates given to the 13-year-old girl and other students this week at a junior high school east of Houston were supposed to be lighthearted.
But the Channelview Independent School District issued a statement apologising for the "insensitive and offensive fake mock awards."
"A terrorist is a really big thing, like just what happen two, three days ago with Ariana Grande in her concert and they are joking around with this," said Lizeth Villanueva, the student who received the terrorist award.
13-year-old Lizeth Villanueva, the student who recieved the award Source: Twitter/Jason Miles
"That's not something to joke around with."
The girl's mother, Ena Hernandez, says she was upset by the certificate given to her daughter.
"Being a teacher, giving it to a 13-year-old, I mean, how is she going to feel when she grow up later?" said Ena Hernandez.
Channelview spokesman Mark Kramer told KPRC-TV in Houston that the certificates were a "poor attempt to poke fun."
The district declined to disclose the punishment the teachers received.
