Religion affects the security of students of different backgrounds in Public School

For a freshmen service-learning project in school, a group of students went on a walking trip to a Jewish Museum. Sounds harmless right? Wrong, while on this trip, the male students were asked to put a Yamaka upon their head and enter the sanctuary. To some they gladly put on the Yamaka but to others of different religion there was a problem. Not only with having to place the Yamaha upon the head but also having to go into the sanctuary, and not only the males but the females. As a results the students of Muslim beliefs they refused to go in, not out of disrespect but simply because it was against their religion.
But to some teachers they thought that they were just saying it so they would not have to complete the assignment. When the teachers tried to catch their “bluff” by saying if I call your parents to see if it’s okay they will say the same thing as you. The students all willingly gave them their parents numbers agreed that the teachers could call right now if they wanted to. The teachers took their word for it and took the rest of the students into the sanctuary to finish the lesson. Once the part of the lesion that involved them stepping foot into the sanctuary was completed they took a walking tour around the area of the museum, the students of Muslim beliefs taught that it was over and that after their parents were contacted they wouldn’t here another word of it, and they were right.

Question time, do you think that the students were wrong for not going into the sanctuary, or do you believe that they had a right not to go into the sanctuary? Should there grade suffer because of the fact that it was against their religion to place a Yamaka upon their head ,and refuse to go into the sanctuary. I believe that it should not be held against their grade, and that it was respect for their religion not to participate.