A petition to review a writ of certiorari filed on behalf of a La Plata High School alumna, who claimed that the Charles County Public Schools system violated her First Amendment rights back in 2014 by allegedly promoting and endorsing assignments about Islam which conflicted with her Christianity, was denied Oct. 15 by the United States Supreme Court after a judge’s opinion concluded that the materials constituted a small part of the school’s world history curriculum. The Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian law firm based in Ann Arbor, Mich., initially filed a lawsuit in federal district court on behalf of Caleigh Madison Wood and her parents, Kevin and Melissa Wood of La Plata. The suit dates back to October 2014 when Wood, who was a junior at at La Plata High School at the time, alleged that she was being “indoctrinated” into Islam during instruction in a world history class on the statement of faith and five pillars of Islamic teaching. The Maryland Independent previously reported in February that Kevin Wood objected to the lessons, advising Caleigh not to complete them as he was “outraged that his daughter was being taught false information on Islam,” and that […]
