A Pennsylvania teacher resigns after being accused of labeling a Muslim youngster a “terrorist.”

A Pennsylvania middle school teacher has resigned after being accused of calling a Muslim seventh grader a “terrorist.”

“The teacher has submitted her resignation which was approved earlier this evening,” the school district said in a statement Tuesday.

The incident is alleged to have taken place Jan. 16 at Central Dauphin Middle School in Harrisburg after the student asked the teacher to change seats, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, said in a release.

“I do not negotiate with terrorists,” the teacher told the student, according to CAIR, which described the student as Palestinian Lebanese American.

Adam Rahman, the boy’s father, said at a news conference Monday evening that his son is doing “OK” but that the incident will “always resonate in his head” and he’ll “wonder if the next teacher will say the same thing.”

“He felt like the room was spinning and he was the only one and there was nobody to help him,” Rahman said. “These teachers are supposed to be the mentors, the people who you look up to, and if that fails, there’s nothing.”

The Central Dauphin School District said it was informed of allegations that the teacher “made a derogatory comment” to the student during an after-school program at the middle school. It did not identify the educator.

The district said Tuesday that “any incident of this nature” goes against its values and the policies set for staff members.

“The school district’s mission is to give every student a strong academic foundation and also nurture and celebrate the many cultures and ethnicities of our students and staff,” it said.

Rahman said that it is not the first time his family has experienced “red flags” in the school district but that this was the “tipping point.”

“When teachers say it, that’s when I have to go to the school and confront this,” he said.

Rahman called for more education in geopolitics in the district so students can “learn more about different backgrounds, especially in the Middle East.”

Community leaders demanded cultural sensitivity and anti-bias curriculum and training at Monday’s news conference.

In a statement, the Harrisburg Palestine Coalition said what it described as the teacher’s “deeply embedded racism” may stem partly from “exposure to misinformation and war propaganda by mainstream news coverage of Palestine.”

“Central Dauphin School District must do more to ensure that education on Palestine is correctly taught in its classrooms,” the coalition said.

In a joint statement Tuesday, CAIR’s Philadelphia branch, the Harrisburg Palestine Coalition and the Rahman family said they welcomed the teacher’s resignation but questioned if the Central Dauphin School District would commit to educating its staff “on Muslim inclusion and equity” and on “the full historic context of Palestine.”

“We are glad this teacher will no longer be able to pose harm to the Central Dauphin School District community,” the statement read. “But she should face consequences for the harm she created to our 7th grader.”