Girl expelled from school because of lesbian parents...
 

Sad...

"School Expels Girl for Having Gay Parents

ONTARIO, Calif. (Sept. 23) - A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.

Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.

"Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's biological mother.

Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.

Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won't fight the ruling.

School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.

Clark and her partner have been together 22 years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19."

I don't even know where to begin...but I guess the good part is that Shay won't be educated by these people. I guess they think it's consistent with a positive Christian lifestyle to judge others and effectively punish a child for her parents' conduct.

Its a private school, so they can do it.

I'm sure her parents read the paperwork/policies BEFORE sending their daughter to this school, which makes me wonder why they would send her there in the first place? :confused: For some reason, I feel as if its a set-up to test the school's admission.

It like if I sent my daughter to an Islamic school that had rules stating that one parent had to be a Muslim (which neither me nor my fiance are ) and they kicked her out because we didn't comply.

ETA: Ok, it says they weren't going to fight the ruling, but I'm still :confused: as to why they would send her there in the first place knowing the school's policy?

Oh, I agree that they can do it. However, I reserve the right to talk smack about them for being assholes.

Maybe the public school alternatives suck.

Or, maybe they would like their child(ren) exposed to Christian values -- even though they may disagree on just what Christian values are.

We certainly don't all agree on the latter.

It also appears to me that they are quoting the superintendent's letter -- not the school policy, per se -- in the article. We don't know if the policy is clearly stated in the application.

Finally, why do you suppose only one parent has to adhere to whatever values the school believes in?

That's probably there for parents who are divorced. A mother with custody may want to send her child to a Christian school, but her ex might not fit the policies or vice versa. That's my guess.

I heard about this on the radio and I live right by Ontario...lets just say its not the nicest of towns, the Ontario airport is pretty much all that the town has going for it so I can see how parents might send their child to a school despite the fact that they are not in sync with their policies in order for their child to receive a better education.

I'm not saying I agree with any of the decisions made here but its unfortunate that the child suffers as a result of all this...

It's a shame that the parents knew how the child would feel if she was kicked out of school, and enrolled her in a school that would kick her out for a rule they chose to violate.

The school has every right to do this and the entire blame is with the parents.

-Rudey
--Why is it that so many people are so closed-minded that they refuse to even allow someone else to follow their beliefs?

Re: Girl expelled from school because of lesbian parents...
 

Wait a minute. What exactly did the girl initially get punished for? It sounds to me like the administration knew about it and was just using it as an excuse to boot her.

Couldn't divorcing be considered inconsistent with a positive Christian lifestyle? If so, I suppose they'd have about 20 students whose parents are actually "worthy" of having their offspring attend such a fine institution. Do they monitor the behavior of all parents to ensure that their lifestyles are appropriate?

I find the talking to the crowd during a football game thing odd, too. Do they have some sort of football vow of silence?

There are biblical reasons for divorce, so no, being a divorced parent isn't necessarily contrary to a positive Christian lifestyle.

Maybe she was yelling dirty cheers?:confused: LoL I can think of a few we use to yell as youngin's.

And all 20 of them would be from the same family, just like that creepy family in Arkansas...

:eek: My uterus ached just reading that!! :eek:

I do have a friend who's mom is one of 25 kids! :eek: This was in the 40s/50s, but still. Oh yeah, and there are NO sets of twins! :eek:

Well depending if you place more emphasis on the Old Testament or the New Testament - Old says no prob, while New says no way...

Can I just say ow.

On preview: what DeltAlum said to the Nth power.

Not as long as there was a "holy sceptre" and a "sacred vessel" involved in the marriage, it isn't. :rolleyes:

Make that double ow. Imagine the cost of trying to send them all to college?!? :( :o

I saw the hour long docu-special on that family.

:rolleyes: but this is America. You can do that if you want. At least they are not on any type of public aid. Can you imagine if the parents got a divorce? If I remember, the wife never worked outside of the home.

Maybe they will be on public aid:p

Here in the Bible Belt, the daughter of a seldom-on-the-air talk show producer was denied admission to a "christian" pre-school, because her father worked (not talked) on the show of a loud-mouth talker, Kim Petersen.

I don't think her parents chose to break the homosexual rule of the school. That's like saying the child's parents chose to be homosexual. I know I didn't choose to be heterosexual. I didn't sit down and write a pro and con list about heterosexual and homosexual lifestyles and then chose.

The only thing they chose was to send their child to this school. Who knows if this was really a rule? All that was quoted was the superintendant's letter, not the school manual or handbook.

Read ICornithians, I think chapter 11 or 12. It contains what's refered to as "the Pauline Privilege", or the only Christian excuses for divorce. They include desertion by the non-believer, adultery, and abuse by the non-believer.

As for that large family, that could be a family from my former church. I think they only have 13, though - the 14th died. One of my ancestors had 15, but there were 2 sets of twins. Her husband was in the Army, and filed for compensation for receiving a minie ball in the groin, "where it is still lodged, and causes excruitating pain at times." I tend to think his wife shot him, 'round about Kid #10!!!

But back to the topic: I'm with Honeykiss & Rudey on this one - why enroll your child in a school where you KNOW you don't fit the qualifications?

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No kidding! I saw a show about them on TLC. Dude, enough already
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I am still wondering why they would enroll her in this type of school knowing the administrations attitude. :confused: