According to reports, staff at a nursery school in Luton threatened to send a four-year-old boy to a de-radicalisation programme after he drew pictures of his father cutting cucumbers.
The youngster’s mother, who has not been named, told the BBC that staff thought he had drawn a picture of his father making a “cooker bomb”.
"She [the member of nursery staff] kept saying it was this one picture of the man cutting the cucumber....which she said to me is a 'cooker bomb', and I was baffled," the little boy’s mum explained.
Believing the way her son pronounced “cucumber” was too blame, she admitted that she was afraid her children would be taken away from her.
“But I haven't done anything wrong... It was a horrible day."
However, since July, teachers and public service workers have a legal obligation to report any concerns of extremist behaviour. Talking to the I, Alex Kenny from the National Union of Teachers admits that they are scared of getting it wrong.
"They think Ofsted is going to criticise them if they haven't reported these things, and you end up [with] the boy making the spelling mistake, or the boy saying something in Arabic - that then gets reported on."
