Maybe they were just inspired from the school assignment to be a Muslim for a week.
When my son was in junior high in California(98-01)he was required to be ‘Muslim’ for a day. This assignment was not put into a memo to the parents. I didn’t know about it until he mentioned it when he was in college. Do California kids now have to be ‘Muslim’ for a week? Or were you being facetious? (I didn’t see any mention of it in the text of the article)