Teacher evacuated classroom when one of the teens ignored request to leave.

TEMECULA, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 26, 2021 - Two siblings were banned from a charter school in Kalifornia after they refused to wear masks because of religion reasons, as the whole campus was placed on lockdown.

Victoria and Drew Nelson, of Temecula, were forced to leave school grounds on their first and last day of class at Springs Charter School.

Administrators said the students were asked to either comply to wear the mask or leave their classrooms.

Drew, a senior, was sent to the principal's office but when Victoria refused to leave the classroom, her teacher evacuated the students in her class and blocked Victoria from following them.

“When I would go left, she would follow me. I was trying to go around her and she would block me so eventually I just gave up,” said Victoria, who was a junior.

She recorded a conversation she had with the principal after she was called in to his office.

“I need you to stand up or we will have to physically remove you from the classroom,” said the principal.

“Please don't touch me,” the teenager replied.

After the incident, the school released a statement saying there are not religious exemptions for mask mandates in school settings in the state of Kalifornia.

Victoria said she loved the school and would miss it, but was disheartened by how she was dismissed.

She said she wasn't making up excuses to avoid having to wear a mask, and that she was standing up for her convictions.

“We thought the school would care about what be believe in, but they didn't even care enough to listen,” she added.

Eventually a school resource officer (SRO) was called.

SROs are called when there is an imminent threat to the students and staff, but the school refused to elaborate on the threat Victoria and Drew posed, citing privacy concerns.

Ed. Note: Now the students need to sue the school and name both the principal and teacher in the lawsuit. When they find their property being taken to satisfy the damage caused to these students then maybe they will take their heads out of their asses and realize it is they who did wrong; not the students.