A school district that has been caught at least three times bashing the Christian faith of a student has earned a demand letter from a legal team warning about that idea of “Three strikes and you’re out.”

“If the district refuses to immediately comply, we are going to court,” explained a report from the American Center for Law and Justice.

The latest blunder by officials in the unidentified school district profiled by the ACLJ regarding the student, whose name wasn’t released, is that district employees forced her to attend an assembly in which her beliefs were being violated.

“A young Christian girl sat in the middle of her school’s gymnasium crying. She wasn’t being disruptive. She wasn’t causing a scene. She didn’t do anything wrong. She was crying because school officials had just forced her to return to an assembly that she believed violated her religious faith after she repeatedly asked to leave,” the ACLJ explained of the situation.

“This is now the third time the ACLJ has been forced to intervene on behalf of the same Christian student against the same public school district. Rather than learning from its previous violations, the district has continued to target our client’s religious beliefs and disregard her constitutional rights. All of this taken together makes this latest episode all the more egregious – and a clear sign the district has no intention of stopping on its own,” the report said.

It was when this student, now a sixth-grader, was in second grade that the war was started by the school.

“She was subjected to daily backpack searches by school officials who confiscated her Bible and Gospel tracts,” the ACLJ said.

She already had been warned that she was not allowed to talk about Jesus with classmates.

The latest offense was teachers’ demands she attend an “Inclusion Assembly” at her middle school.

The student heard assembly components that “conflicted with her family’s religious beliefs. Knowing she should not be participating, our client quietly approached a teacher, explained that she was uncomfortable, and asked to leave,” the report said.

The teacher told staff the student needed a restroom and could leave.

But the bathrooms were closed, and while the student was waiting in the hall another teacher confronted her.

The teacher listened to the explanation, then told the student, “You have no choice.”

“They aren’t forcing their belief on you, but they are informing you about this,” the student was told.

“Back inside the gym, our client sat on the bleachers crying. She tried not to look at the presentation. She tried not to listen. But she was forced to remain there. Her distress was obvious to everyone around her,” the ACLJ said. “In what kind of school does a visibly distraught child sit crying during an assembly without anyone contacting her parents?”

The report explained, “School officials knew exactly what her parents would have said because they had dealt with this exact issue before. They knew the family’s religious convictions. They knew the family had previously opted their daughter out of similar programming. Yet instead of providing notice and allowing the parents to make that decision, the district simply eliminated the notice and forced the child to attend.”

That’s evidence of “hostility” to religious faith, the legal team said.