With one report calling the situation “another good argument for homeschooling,” there is word that parents in the school district in Palo Alto, California, are suing officials because they rounded up children for a “field trip” and then sent them into a Muslim mosque indoctrination session.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the lawsuit is against the Palo Alto Unified School District and Brent Kline, principal of Palo Alto High School.
The charge is that the school’s “Social Justice Pathway” turned a class field trip to a Santa Clara mosque into “taxpayer-funded religious indoctrination.”
“[T]he District failed to maintain religious neutrality, failed to ensure equal treatment among faiths, failed to protect student privacy, and failed to vet, supervise, and monitor religiously divisive outside speakers during the school-sponsored event,” the case allegations include.
The report said the “Pathway” is a three-year program and the latest indoctrination of the children included exposure, during events at the Muslim Community Association mosque in Santa Clara, to “Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whom the filing describes as a ‘controversial outside speaker with publicly documented hostile statements concerning Jews.’”
The national CAIR group was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the famous Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial.
The case said Billoo was “allowed unfettered access to students to advocate personal religious and political views without balancing perspective or adequate supervision.”
For example, students were encouraged to dress in “Islamic religious attire, given Qurans to take home” and more.
Ten people and Community Members for Religious Neutrality in Public Schools — San Francisco Bay Area, launched the case.
Their lawyer, David Rosenberg-Wohl, said the school singling out one faith for promotion is a violation of state and federal law.
Parents (Jewish, Hindu & Zoroastrian) sue Palo Alto Unified School District & high school principal over a Fall 2025 “Social Justice Pathway” field trip to a Santa Clara mosque.
Lawsuit alleges students were encouraged to wear Islamic attire (incl. hijabs), given Qurans,… pic.twitter.com/tMvrteWS1d
— Matt Robinson (@mattrobinson) August 20, 2026
California high school students were taken on a field trip to a mosque. According to parents, Qurans were handed out to the students.
Young girls were encouraged to put on hijabs.Photos of the students were shared online without parental consent.
Parents have now filed a… pic.twitter.com/IYW23p97Z4
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) August 20, 2026
The lawsuit alleges girls were encouraged to wear hijabs, students were provided Qurans, observed prayer and exposed to the idea that Islam was aligned with social justice work. https://t.co/5oAF4ArNpw
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) August 15, 2026
