Christian school complains 8 year old isn't feminine enough

[Kadarin]

Well, that was an important lesson in Christian love and tolerance. Jesus would have been proud.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Family sends girl to a private "christian" school looking like a butch lesbian and then are surprised when school doesn't like it. Who would have guessed?

Pretty soon the news will be covering stories about a black family getting upset because they sent their son to a KKK meeting and they made fun of him...

She's eight. She didn't get caught dyking out or something, she's just a little girl that acts like a tomboy.

Other than using a hate group to compare to christianity, your analogy sucks too.

 

[Eug]

You'd think schools would like to have quiet and nice kids with 4.0 GPAs.

 

[waggy]

I don't see the problem here. You're telling they didn't know that a Catholic school would have strict dress and conduct rules?

Hopefully the girl is a lesbian though. If she continues to look and dress like that in her teens she's going to attract more girls than boys.

this is not a dress code violation. girls are allowed to dress in pants and T-shirt.

it's the school being retarded and saying she can't be a tomboy.

also she is FUCKING 8 yrs old. she is not a lez, she is not out to attract boys or girls. She is just doing what she enjoys.

WTF people god damn.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Maybe for one day she should wear a Burka to school, and ask "feminine enough"?

:awe:

 

[wabbitslayer]

your analogy sucks too.

sort of like the news, eh?

 

[Linflas]

I don't see the problem here. You're telling they didn't know that a Catholic school would have strict dress and conduct rules?

Hopefully the girl is a lesbian though. If she continues to look and dress like that in her teens she's going to attract more girls than boys.

Not a Catholic school. No denomination was stated in the story but one would assume that it likely a fundamentalist denomination of some sort. And while as a private school they have every right to include/exclude for any silly reason they can dream up it really reflects back on them and their intolerance and not the child.

 

[techs]

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Dt++22:5

But then: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3:28

Deuteronomy is more directly related, but you have to consider:
1. Society defines male and female clothing much differently now.
2. It's the Old Testament. What still applies and what doesn't is a pretty big debate.

Galatians doesn't directly apply, but I could see it being used to argue for gender neutrality in clothing and activities.

Thank you. Very edifying.

 

[techs]

You'd think schools would like to have quiet and nice kids with 4.0 GPAs.

In general they do. This is a religious school and apparently gives great weight to other areas.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Matthew 19:14 "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Except the tom-boys, Jesus isn't interested.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Not a Catholic school. No denomination was stated in the story but one would assume that it likely a fundamentalist denomination of some sort. And while as a private school they have every right to include/exclude for any silly reason they can dream up it really reflects back on them and their intolerance and not the child.

Oops. I read the whole article thinking the situation didn't make much sense for a Catholic school. Guess it makes sense now. I'm pretty cool with Catholic schools overall. Schools that model themselves after some kind of fundamentalist world-view are atrocious though.