Good Lord: The school administrators sure know how to make you feel like

[La_Serpiente]

feces.

This boy gets kicked out for being gay and then he is hammered with all these other issues that are totally unreleated to the situation at hand.

http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/111203expelSuit.htm

Expelling Gay Student Justified School Says
by Fidel Ortega

(Jupiter, Florida) A Christian private school says it had every right to expel a student for being gay because "homosexuality is a sin that violates God's natural plan".

Jeffrey Woodard, 18, was expelled by Jupiter Christian School after a teacher asked if he is gay and he said yes.

Woodward, who was a senior at the school, and his mother are suing the school accusing it of violating his rights and breach of contract. (story)

But in the school's response to the suit, school President Rich Grimm, accused Woodward of violating school policy by repeating he is gay to other students, and it accuses his mother of being behind in his tuition and Jeffrey of having failing grades.

[meegbear]

1. Violating school policy by repeating he is gay to other students?

The other accusations are bad enough, but THAT? Ridiculous.

[gratuitous]

2. See, when you're a private school

You don't have to mess with any inconvenient mandates to educate anyone who comes through the door. What I can't understand is why the student and his mother are still trying to get in where they clearly aren't wanted or welcome. Is the school's academic program so superior to anything else in the area that it has to be Jupiter Christian or nothing? And why is a Christian school named for a Roman god?

Dang, I've got a lot of questions for this early in the morning!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Yup.

Too many unanswered questions.

She isn't paying the tuition and the kid's flunking?

Private schools can do pretty much what they want if they're not taking Federal money and meet the state educational standards. I thoroughly disagree with their stand on the kid's sexuality, but there's more to this story than meets the eye.

[OldSoldier]

7. It's in Jupiter, Florida

Named for the town it's in.

[northzax]

3. this is perfectly acceptable

as a private school, they can do this if they wish.

of course, I assume they have evidence of him actually engaging in homosexual activity? it's pretty clear to me that no one can say that having being gay is a sin, you can argue from their misguided perspective that acting on these feelings is a sin, and they have every right ot do so. I hope they have also asked all students about their virginity, and expelled those who have engaged in sexual activity before marriage. that also is a sin.

of course, no law says they have to be consistent, either. let;s leave the idiots alone in their little fantasy world.

[La_Serpiente]

6. Actually

This school accepts vouchers I believe AND the administration official walked right up to him and asked him if he was gay. The boy responded yes and that was it. No physical encounter or anything.

Also, the administrator could just be saying all of that stuff to make him feel like crap.

[walkon]

4. This is the kicker

From the article:

Grimm said the school policy is that homosexuality is "a form of sexual immorality," which the student handbook lists as a reason for expulsion.
"We believe homosexuality is a sin that violates God's natural plan for marriage, a man and a woman joining together and becoming as one. And through our Christian School Philosophy we ask all parents to cooperate with us and to teach their children ... the biblical view of dating, marriage and the family."
However, Grimm said in the address the school is not "anti-gay."
"If we're anti-anything, we are anti-sin. And that is because we are pro-Christ," he said.

snip

NOT ANTI-GAY?!!

This is the logic that will strip the gears of any normal brain!

[OldSoldier]

8. Here's where this gets fun...

The principal describes Jeffrey Woodward as "an academically ineligible, unregistered student" in the original link. In http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/102203flaSchoolSuit.htm it explains that he had attended the school for three years.

Did they just get around to noticing he hadn't signed up? Or did they deregister him after they found out he was one of "those people" (read: someone who isn't going to produce little marks...uhh, Jupiter Christian School students)?

[eleny]

9. "President Grimm"? -- Sounds like Dickens n/t