Richmond teacher resigns over 'anti-Muslim' materials

WARNING: The following images are taken from an anti-Islam brochure allegedly distributed by a teacher at Richmond's Foster High School to members of a senior economics class. A Houston Muslim advocacy group has demanded the disciplining of a Richmond high school teacher responsible. Material may be offensive to some readers.

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A senior government and economics teacher at Foster High School in Richmond has resigned after handing out materials to students on March 27 that called Muhammad a "false prophet" and described Islam as an "ideology of war."

In a statement released on Tuesday night, a Lamar CISD spokesman said the teacher turned in his resignation on April 8.

The teacher, identified by parents familiar with the class as Herby Woolverton, drew public criticism from the community, including from the Houston Council On American-Islamic Relations, which called the eight-page handout "virulently anti-Muslim."

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Both supporters and critics of the teacher's materials took to social media in response to the controversy.

Lamar CISD has said it cannot comment further on the situation but said at that time that the district "made it clear to the staff and student body at Foster" that the teacher's decision to use materials outside the curriculum were not appropriate and that the district had addressed the situation.