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 explained to The Washington Post.
The dispute started back in October of 2014. Here’s part of the original report from America’s Freedom Fighters:
John Kevin Wood, who served eight years in the Marine Corps and his wife, Melissa are suing the public school system in Maryland for promoting Islam over every other religion. When they discovered that their daughter’s World History class at La Plata High School was circulating assignments that amounted to Islamic propaganda they filed a suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the school for violating her Constitutional rights.
Here’s an example of one of the assignments which implies that Muslim faith is stronger than Christian faith- unbelievable.
According to the Washington Free Beacon,
The class also spent one day covering Christianity, while teachers devoted two weeks to instructing about Islam.
Upon learning of the lessons prioritizing Islam, Wood, who is Christian, contacted the school and demanded alternative assignments for his daughter. The school refused to allow his daughter to opt out of the assignments and threatened her with failing grades if they were not completed. She elected not to complete the worksheets.