(Courthouse News) A Fourth Circuit panel sided Monday with a Maryland school district after a Christian student and her family opposed a lesson plan that taught about the Islamic faith.
Caleigh Wood was an 8th grade student in Charles County Public School system when her world history teacher began a unit that involved lessons on Islam. When her father John Wood found out, he instructed his daughter to not complete the assignments because doing so would violate her “Christian beliefs.”
The Woods’ complaint pointed to specific lines in the lesson plan such as a projected slide that contained the statement “Most Muslim’s [sic] faith is stronger than the average Christian,” and other related worksheets which they said they found offensive.
