Marine banned from daughter's school after dispute over Islam homework assignment - It asked for explanations of Islam's Five Pillars, Mecca and Muhammad. The parents didn't like it and feel religion should not be taught in public schools.

A father and military veteran says he has been banned from a Charles County high school because he got into an argument with faculty over his child's homework assignment.

Kevin Wood received his no trespassing order on Tuesday. This all stems from a run-in between Wood and the vice principal at his daughter's school.

He says he challenged a history class assignment that had students list the benefits of Islam.

The school says Wood crossed the line and threatened the vice principal.

Both sides are talking, but they have very different versions of this assignment and the fallout that followed.

"A lot of people do not understand where my husband is coming from,” said Melissa Wood.

Melissa says her husband Kevin, a United States Marine and Iraq veteran, is the most patriotic person she has met. But now, he is banned from even stepping foot near their daughter's high school.

"I don't force my religious views on them, so don't force your religious views on me," Kevin told us.

This started when their eleventh grader came home from La Plata High School with a three-page assignment. It asked for explanations of Islam's Five Pillars, Mecca and Muhammad.

Kevin and Melissa didn't like it and feel religion should not be taught in public schools. They say Islam should not get priority over Judaism or Christianity.

"We cannot discuss our Ten Commandments in school, but they can discuss Islam's Five Pillars?" said Melissa.

Kevin went to the school to talk with a vice principal, but things got heated. Kevin would end up getting slapped with a notice banning him from the school property.

"I have witnesses that have said I did not threaten anybody in any way shape or form,” said Kevin.

"He was threatening to cause a disruption or possible disruption at the school,” said Katie O'Malley-Simpson, spokesperson for Charles County Public Schools.

She says the high school was in its rights to ban Kevin from school property. They also that defended the assignment on Islam and say his objections are off base.

"We're not teaching religion,” said O'Malley-Simpson. “We're teaching world history.”

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