Ms. Unal is a Turkish-born Muslim who speaks with a distinct Turkish accent, and she was the only foreign-born teacher at her school. After a new principal (who supervised Ms. Unal) was hired in 2008, Ms. Unal claimed that the school had a culture of racial and ethnic insensitivity and that the principal and her staff made, encouraged, or acquiesced in various harassing or discriminatory comments and created a hostile work environment for Ms. Unal because she was foreign.