Nearly 24 students requested the removal of an Islamic high school principal in Makkah Saturday for denying them access to the exam room after being “only a few minutes” late for the start of the exam. In a letter to the President of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University, which run the Islamic high schools in the country, the students said that the principal did not give them a chance to sit for the exam after they explained to him that reasons out of their control had been the cause of their being a few minutes late. They demanded immediate removal of the principal in their letter as at least four of them will miss the chance to go to college this year. “The students were not on time for the exam and they have been late on other occasions,” said Abdullah Al-Ahmari, the school principal. “Last Sunday, the same students were 25 minutes late yet they were allowed to take the exam in my private office in the school,” he added. They were given a first chance, but there is no second, he said. The school has talked to the students' guardians who fully understand the school's decision to deny them access to the exam, but there are troublemakers who wanted them to complain to higher authorities, Al
