The parents of a 5 year old from Oviedo, Florida, are left upset after a teacher at Carillon Elementary School told their 5 year old daughter that she was not allowed to pray.

A video was posted by the kindergartener's father, Marcos Perez, to
YouTube detailing the incident at lunchtime. In the video, the girl explains what happened by revisiting the conversation with the "lunch teacher".

“My lunch teacher told me that, when I was about to say something, she said, You’re not allowed to pray." When asked what her response to the teacher was she said, "It’s good to pray." And she said that teacher told her, "It’s not good."

The school district is claiming that they were not notified of the incident until after Perez posted the video on YouTube.

"We're dealing with very young children here so there's quite a bit of an opportunity for miscommunication to occur. The timing and the issues were very odd considering that the first thing that happened was that a video was done, it was on YouTube.," Michael Lawrence, the school communications officer said to WKMG Local 6.

According to Yahoo! NewsAnaLynn Jones, principal of Carillon Elementary School, spoke to the cafeteria staff who were working during the incident but none of them remembered the incident or anything taking place with the girl.

"I told her she did the right thing. I don't doubt for a minute that my daughter is telling the truth," said the girl's mother, Kathy Perez.

Aside from the incident with the school, it has been brought to the attention of many that Marco Perez is the vice president of sales at Charisma House and is promoting a book titled 'God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values', by Fox News host Todd Starnes. Apparently, many are finding this a bit of a coincidence and are calling it the perfect publicity stunt to promote sells for the book.

Perez denies the accusations of using his family to promote the book saying, "I'm a father first, a VP of sales second."

The incident has made nationwide news and a Texas-based religious liberty law firm is working alongside the Perez family.

The Orlando Sentinel noted that lawyers have asked that a letter of apology be sent to the family.

"The principal has pretty much dismissed this," said the family's lawer, Jeremiah Dys. "Saying a 5-year-old cannot pray over her chicken nuggets and mac and cheese isn't in line with the Constitution."

The family has pulled the kindergartener from the school and are planning to home school her. The incident is still under further investigation.