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Old 01-14-2020, 08:09 PM
 
Location: The Midwest
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If you don't prescribe to a particular faith, why are you there?
The child is not gay. This had nothing to do with anything related to LGBTQ issues. She just liked rainbows. Which tenet of the Christian faith precludes one from eating a rainbow-colored cake? If the administrators at her school are so stupid to believe that anything with a rainbow is related to OMGgay, then it’s probably for the best that she’s not learning in that environment.
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Old 01-14-2020, 09:12 PM
 
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The child is not gay. This had nothing to do with anything related to LGBTQ issues. She just liked rainbows. Which tenet of the Christian faith precludes one from eating a rainbow-colored cake? If the administrators at her school are so stupid to believe that anything with a rainbow is related to OMGgay, then it’s probably for the best that she’s not learning in that environment.
Sounds as if the school's administration never learned about Noah's Ark...
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Old 01-14-2020, 09:16 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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The rainbow can also be interpreted as a symbol of the covenant between Noah and God in the Old Testament. Assuming every display of a rainbow means gay pride is pretty ignorant. But then I think the kid would be better off elsewhere anyways.
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Old 01-14-2020, 09:27 PM
 
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I’m not taking sides but you neglected to mention that she was already on probation for two years of continuous violations of the school’s student code of conduct, most recently bringing juul pods to school.
Agree, that was a key omission.
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Old 01-14-2020, 09:49 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Agree, that was a key omission.
No it wasnt. Being gay/liking rainbows will never be a justification for suspending/ expelling someone.
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Old 01-14-2020, 10:35 PM
 
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This has got to be one of the dumbest reasons I've ever heard a school use as an excuse for expelling a student.

However, this particular school has quite a handbook:

https://whitefieldacademykc.org/wp-c...book-FINAL.pdf

It seems that a Classical Christian school (which I have never heard of until now & what this particular school is - founded in 1995) is just another name for a hardcore Baptist/Evangelical school.

The handful of Baptists/Evangs I've met/known?

If something is perceived to be wrong? It is wrong. No room for deviation. At least not in the public eye. What you do at home is your own business. As long as no one reports your deviant behavior and you keep your deviant behavior off of social media....

Maybe 20-25 years ago rainbows would have been allowed to be embraced by these "types" of schools, but since LBGTQ took all things "rainbow" over? I guess you can't "like" rainbows in a CC School. Not even as a 15 year old.

Perhaps the school should stick that in their handbook. Something along the lines of the fact that "rainbows have been co-opted by evil, therefore all man-made representations of rainbows are evil - whether on a cake, a sweater, a cartoon character, etc. ".
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Old 01-14-2020, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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Good. She should go to a school that won't make her stupider.
That's my reaction.

I hope her parents learned that christians aren't necessarily everything they're cracked up to be.
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Old 01-14-2020, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Barrington
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There seems to be two sides to this story. No way to make beads or tails of it.

Regardless, it seems best for this family and school to part ways
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Old 01-14-2020, 11:20 PM
 
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No it wasnt. Being gay/liking rainbows will never be a justification for suspending/ expelling someone.
This is a private religious school.

Not a public school, not a Catholic school, not a regular old "private" school.

Every religion has a sect or five that is steeped in some whacko age-old belief system they choose to follow of said religion.

This is one of them.
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Old 01-15-2020, 01:41 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Sounds like a setup by mommy for a lawsuit against the school.
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