NEWS: Go to prom and we'll suspend you, says Christian school. (education, about)
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If the parents enroll their kid in a school with the intention of the school teaching a set of values, how is it not appropriate that the school define acceptable behavior?
The parents sent their kid there, he apparently likes going there....he should just man up and accept the fact that there are consequences to his actions.
The mircosm the school created doesn't exist in the real world. Is he to stay away from the beach all summer as there are girls tempting him by wearing a bathing suit?
Oh, I just caught this. I thought your defense was weak enough that I didn't want to waist the time addressing it. But if you really want me to, I will. Just give me the word, Johnny.
Yes, I really want you to, go ahead, "waist [sic]" your time.
Oh for goodness sake BCJ - this is the internet, not an English Language exam! Everyone makes silly mistakes sometimes - as we all know English is an evolving language with lots of funny nuances from past languages - the spelling is bizarre and irrational (I know, I am trying to teach my kids! "Why is it spelled like that Mummy?" - "****ed if I know, Darling!" - before you leap up and down that is a joke I don't swear at my kids - not when they can hear me anyway!)
Grammar is complicated and debatable (?sp! )
Stop derailing the whole thread over a ridiculous discussion of who is the bigger grammar nazi!
The point of the thread is whether it is acceptable for a private school to dictate how it's students live their lives.
IMHO (don't you just HATE that abbreviation! ) They should only be allowed to say what happens at school - unless it is illegal activities in which case they can discipline the child as well as informing the relevant authorities.
Out in the work environment this happens too - Employees are told that they have to "not bring the company into disrepute" by behaving badly outside of work - well, unless they are actually using their job to do this - say for example, a nurse doing a striptease with her uniform on - then I don't see what business it is of theirs.
But that is probably cos I like being badly behaved once in a while, but don't want to lose my job!
It's fine if people make mistakes, but if those same people are going to criticize others' grammar then they should be ready to have theirs criticized in return.
Furthermore, part of the discussion here is justme's insistence that ALL of Christianity is rooted in procuring money from its adherents. I challenged that, and justme sees fit to continue to try to push that bigoted, ignorant assertion. That gives me the right to continue to argue against it. It's tangential but it's relevant to the thread topic.
If you don't like it, tough. Don't read it. Go curse at your kids or something.
Verily, verily I say unto thee, in the great parable "Footloose", handed down from the prophet Kevin Bacon, the evil usurper of God's power Reverand Shaw Moore did forbidth the children from the spring festive dance. But lo, the children did see through his wicked ways and forked tongue, and so did they rebel against the Reverend. And when the children did dance, this did please the lord, for he saweth that it was good.
Amen.
hollywood 3:16? THERES NO SUCH THING AS THAT and that aint no holy bible more like the worldy bible
SoCal 1:1 The lord saith killing is not a sin dude don't make this crap up
The mircosm the school created doesn't exist in the real world. Is he to stay away from the beach all summer as there are girls tempting him by wearing a bathing suit?
um yeah because ladies do tempt men all the time women r another satan
STORY (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap - broken link)
I think to suspend him is one of the dumbest things I have heard. We live in 2009, not 1905. Ok, so his school has rules, but shouldn't those be applied only to what goes on within the school. I think this is totaly nuts!!!
I have a feeling if the school knew some of the things high school students (yes, even Christian high school students) do on their own time, they would think a little dancing is practically nothing to even worry about. I attended a private Christian school for middle and high school. Most of those in charge seemed to think that, since they were at a Christian school, all the students were perfect little Christians. What they didn't know is that most of my classmates were generally just as promiscuous, did just as many drugs, drank just as much alcohol, and did just as much of all the other things they hated as my public high school friends. Possibly more so! And they did all of this without having a school prom with *gasp* dancing.
That being said, I don't really give a rat's ass whether or not this school is crazy and suspends a student for something so trivial. If it were a public school, however, then I'd have a problem with it.
I don't understand why the public school asks for the principal of a guest's high school to sign anything. I don't understand why the principal of the Christian school signed something permitting the kid to go to the prom only to then tell the kid he'd be suspended if he went. I don't understand how the Christian school believes they can reach that far into a student's life outside of the school.
I went to a Christian school with similar rules. They never tried to discipline a student who did something outside of the school that would be against school rules. It wouldn't have affected me, because my parents mostly supported the same rules the school had - no movies, no dancing, etc.
But how is it any of their business???
What about a kid who goes to a relative's wedding where there's dancing and drinking? How about the kids whose parents take them to see the new Pixar animated film in a movie theater? What about the kid whose parent(s) take him to Hooters for wings? Are they going to discipline all the kids who do those things?
It's ridiculous that the school seeks to usurp the role of the parent, and it is hardly Christian that they are imposing upon this kid to not honor his mother and father, which is what the Bible teaches. This is part of the reason that so many Christian schools really stink - they care more about being surrogate parents than about providing an education. In my experience, most Christian schools have such sub-par academic standards but they concentrate on enforcing strict rules first and foremost, sports second, music third, and actual education last.
Couldn't agree more...pulled my child from a Christian school and put her back in a Catholic school. MUCH better education (not even comparable) and not nearly as judgemental.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H L Mencken,
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