Can Christian Teachers Discuss Faith at School? Muslim Couple Sues After Daughter Leaves Islam

A federal judge has ruled an Illinois school district is not responsible for the actions of a teacher who allegedly shared the Gospel with students, leading one Muslim student to convert to Christianity. 

Religion News Service (RNS) reports in his dismissal of the case, Judge Iain D. Johnston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, ruled officials of Community Unit School District 300 were not responsible for the teacher’s actions, as he was disciplined and later resigned after being confronted by those public school officials.

Yosuf Chaudhry and Amena Alvi, who follow Islam, sued the school district almost four years ago after finding out their daughter converted to Christianity while she was a student at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois, according to the outlet. 

The couple’s daughter identified as “B.D.” in the complaint had met Pierre Thorsen, a teacher who taught world history and world religions at the school and also sponsored a Christian group called Uprising.  

Thorsen was a popular teacher at the high school. In 2015, he was named Educator of the Year for Kane County, Illinois. More than 4,000 people signed a Change.org petition supporting the teacher before he resigned

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