The family is suing as you might imagine. If you don’t push back on this sort of nonsense it will never end. Send prayers for their success.
Via Washington Post.
John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him for raising objections to classroom lessons about Islam. Now he’s gone to court for help, asking a judge to remove the ban so he can watch his daughter graduate from high school.
“She’s in the final semester of her senior year, and as it stands right now, she’s going to have to go through that life experience without her dad there,” said Kate Oliveri, a lawyer from the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center who is representing the Wood family.
The dispute dates to October 2014, when Wood’s daughter showed him several assignments for her 11th grade World History class at La Plata High in Charles County, Md. She had been asked to memorize the Five Pillars of Islam. She had been asked to write and recite the shahada, the Muslim statement of faith: There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. She had been taught, according to school papers submitted to federal court, that most Muslims’ faith is “stronger than the average Christian.” […]
When Wood called to complain about the assignments and request alternative work for his daughter, school officials issued a no-trespass order against him. Wood has not been allowed to set foot on the campus of La Plata High since October 2014.
The order, which Wood’s lawyers posted online, says that Wood “made verbal threats against the school.” The legal battle now centers on whether the school system unfairly punished Wood for speaking out.
In court papers, Wood says he never threatened physical harm against the school or its staff. Instead, he said, he threatened to take his concerns public by going to the media and to lawyers.
The dispute turned into a legal battle last month, when Wood and his wife, Melissa, sued the Charles County school system, alleging that La Plata High’s lessons on Islam violated their daughter’s civil and constitutional rights.
Islam is okay, any other religion in school is not allowed. Separation of church and state? Doesn’t apply to Islam it seems. Ask yourself a question, who’s pushing this? Seems like Islam has infected the entire Government body from the top federal level to the bottom city and county, just like a virus or parasite invading the physical body.
AW, you got it. Parents need to raise up and push back against this kind of stuff. School Districts feel they can push what ever they weant down our children’s throats to advance their agenda.
Welcome to Obama’s brand of Christianity(my muslim faith).
Larry Hogan was elected after October 2014. His administration should be reversing the Charles County school system decision.