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Christian School Expels Girl for Wearing Rainbow Sweater on Her Birthday

Rising Sun said:
How many times does someone have to say "repeated violations" or "on probation" before it sinks in this wasn't an isolated incident? Her parents were not forced to put her in that school, they had and still have several options. Most costing less money.
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The repeated violations consisted of vaping supplies in her backpack and horsing around on the bleachers. I'm not talking about the school rules in this case but your assumption that this is a troubled teen that needs to have her life turned around.
 
bearpoker said:
The repeated violations consisted of vaping supplies in her backpack and horsing around on the bleachers. I'm not talking about the school rules in this case but your assumption that this is a troubled teen that needs to have her life turned around.
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Are you saying she isn't a "troubled teen"? Vaping, "horsing around on the bleachers"? What do you consider normal and what do you think is over the line? Pot and alcohol? Driving without a license? Below average grades? The fact remains you and I only know a limited amount of facts in this case but we both know the results: She was expelled after multiple violations over a two year period. Maybe she and her parents will sue so that we can all know exactly what got her into so much trouble...or, more likely, she'll have the same problems in public school and the media will follow her around.
 
AGENT J said:
?????
What on gods earth are you babbling about now? Your posts are making less and less sense as this thread grows...
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What on God's green earth makes you follow someone you dislike, have no respect for and consider incoherent? How bored does a person have to be to repeatedly do so?
 
Rising Sun said:
What on God's green earth makes you follow someone you dislike, have no respect for and consider incoherent? How bored does a person have to be to repeatedly do so?
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Thank you for proving my point and proving your posts to be factually incoherent!!!! LMAO
This is gonna be good!

Who am I "following"
who did i say i dislike?
who did i say i have no respect for?
What did I do repeatedly?

cant wait for the next incoherent factually untrue set of answers!!
 
Rising Sun said:
Are you saying she isn't a "troubled teen"? Vaping, "horsing around on the bleachers"? What do you consider normal and what do you think is over the line? Pot and alcohol? Driving without a license? Below average grades? The fact remains you and I only know a limited amount of facts in this case but we both know the results: She was expelled after multiple violations over a two year period. Maybe she and her parents will sue so that we can all know exactly what got her into so much trouble...or, more likely, she'll have the same problems in public school and the media will follow her around.
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I will bet you dollars to donuts that neither this girl nor her parents ever dreamed that wearing that sweater and having a multicolored birthday cake would constitute a lifestyle violation. If they had any idea, her mother wouldn't have posted it on facebook, for God's sake! I'm sorry. I'm not going to get excited over a little teenage experimentation. As far as I know she didn't use pot or alcohol or any of the rest of that ****. She didn't endanger herself or anyone else. She simply indulged in the evils of rainbows. Who knew that was a crime?
 
bearpoker said:
I will bet you dollars to donuts that neither this girl nor her parents ever dreamed that wearing that sweater and having a multicolored birthday cake would constitute a lifestyle violation. If they had any idea, her mother wouldn't have posted it on facebook, for God's sake! I'm sorry. I'm not going to get excited over a little teenage experimentation. As far as I know she didn't use pot or alcohol or any of the rest of that ****. She didn't endanger herself or anyone else. She simply indulged in the evils of rainbows. Who knew that was a crime?
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Perhaps, but, again, there's a two year history there and without additional information there's no way to see the full context of the situation. The school has a very good reputation and I do not see the logic in them just arbitrarily kicking out students without cause. It appears they gave this young woman multiple chances. Again, without more information, there's no way to understand the full context of the photo and cake.
 
Actually the Gay and Lesbian Alliance do not own a copyright on the colors of the rainbow, or the rainbow image itself. 15 year old girls are not in violation of copyright law by having multiple colors of frosting on their cakes, or their clothing. It is not associated with any one lifestyle or subcultural monopoly.

Now the glitter referenced in the letter to the bakery is under our patent.

Nobody has any business using glitter without our specific written permission on any baked goods.
 
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Rising Sun said:
Perhaps, but, again, there's a two year history there and without additional information there's no way to see the full context of the situation. The school has a very good reputation and I do not see the logic in them just arbitrarily kicking out students without cause. It appears they gave this young woman multiple chances. Again, without more information, there's no way to understand the full context of the photo and cake.
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I'm only assessing from the information I have. I think that if there was anything more, that the school would have put it out, because the bleacher thing was, in an of itself, humiliating for this girl. It leads me to think they aren't holding back from any principle. It's not like they're bound by any confidentiality agreement.
 
btthegreat said:
Actually the Gay and Lesbian Alliance do not own a copyright on the colors of the rainbow, or the rainbow image itself. 15 year old girls are not in violation of copyright law by having multiple colors of frosting on their cakes, or their clothing. It is not associated with any one lifestyle or subcultural monopoly.

Now the glitter referenced in the letter to the bakery is under our patent.

Nobody has any business using glitter without our specific written permission.
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Tweens everywhere beg to differ.
 
bearpoker said:
I'm only assessing from the information I have. I think that if there was anything more, that the school would have put it out, because the bleacher thing was, in an of itself, humiliating for this girl. It leads me to think they aren't holding back from any principle. It's not like they're bound by any confidentiality agreement.
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I doubt the school would release private information on a student much less an underage student. The information in the Newsweek article probably came from the parents.

My guess is the parents are more humiliated than the student. Kayla seems to do whatever the heck she wants.
 
Rising Sun said:
I doubt the school would release private information on a student much less an underage student. The information in the Newsweek article probably came from the parents.

My guess is the parents are more humiliated than the student. Kayla seems to do whatever the heck she wants.
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They had no problem releasing the fingering on the bleachers thing. That's as personal as it gets.
 
Rising Sun said:
I doubt the school would release private information on a student much less an underage student. The information in the Newsweek article probably came from the parents.

My guess is the parents are more humiliated than the student. Kayla seems to do whatever the heck she wants.
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You really think the parents put that out? Really??!!!! Are you a parent? Of course not. What am I thinking! I have three kids. No parent is going to put that sort of information out. Not going to happen. FULL STOP!!!!
 
Rising Sun said:
It's less likely to cause a lawsuit than if the school did it.
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Okay. This saintly school that had undefined, open ended, rules that lets them do whatever they want and expelled this girl for wearing a sweater with a rainbow on it and eating a multicolored cake because of a picture that her mother took, is self aware enough to worry about a lawsuit. Show me your evidence that the parents, in their wisdom, decided to undercut their case by airing their daughter's dirty laundry. How does that make sense?
 
So, I looked at this...and I have to say that I find it ironic that the right...who is always complaining about the left being PC...has their own Politically Correct Agenda.

This story shows all the elements of a basic "PC-Gone-Out-Of -Control" story. You have a conservative school trying to INDOCTRINATE its students. You have a conservative school reaching outside of the school to punish a teen as if they were the THOUGHT POLICE. You have a conservative school PUSHING AN AGENDA...and...SHOVING THEIR BELIEFS DOWN A PERSON'S THROAT.

Basically, what I am saying is this: if you support what this school has done, then you have no right to EVER complain about political correctness ever again as it would be incredibly and obviously hypocritical.
 
Children being murdered in the streets of Chicago = Democrats don't care

Rainbow sweater expulsion = OMG!!!!!! :2mad:

:shrug:
 
rocket88 said:
Christian School Expels Girl for Wearing Rainbow Sweater on Her Birthday | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Whitefield Academy, a private Christian school, expelled 15-year-old freshman*Kayla Kenney*for having the*audacity*to celebrate her birthday with a multi-colored cake while wearing a rainbow sweater.

Because*everyone*knows what that really means.

We don't even know that she's gay. But hey, rainbows, OMG! Guess the Noah story doesn't mean anything to them.
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That's what I was just thinking -- whatever happened to the Christian notion that a rainbow was God's promise not to destroy the earth again by flood?

How are they going to ban sky rainbows?
 
rocket88 said:
But...but...Obama! 2 wrongs make a right!

I guess it depends what rules they have about acceptable colors to wear when not in school.
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You think schools should make rules which you agree with instead of rules they think are right? For example, if a Christian school supported prayer in their school, daily Bible reading, and worship of God but took stands against homosexuality, do you think they should be made to change their views or their rules?
 
Rising Sun said:
Are you anti-military? I benefitted very well from both DOD schools and being in the military.
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Not at all, i just don't think this girl needs to turn her life around because of what sweater she wore to her birthday party.
 
Rising Sun said:
Correct, which is why I think there's more to the story, or at least the history of her repeated violations.

If the t-shirt has said "A Rainbow is God's promise not to drown all of us again" then I'm sure it would have been fine. :)

Genesis 9:12-16 NIV - And God said, “This is the sign of - Bible Gateway
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
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So her wardrobe has to be explicitly Christian?
 
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