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Post by PurplePuppy on Mar 26, 2014 22:03:07 GMT -5
What do you all think about this? Christian school principal says 8-year-old girl not welcome because she dresses and behaves like a boy
By Charlene Sakoda 23 hours ago Odd News The family of Sunnie Kahle, an 8-year-old from Timberlake, Virginia, recently received a letter from her school, Timberlake Christian School (TCS), in which the principal informed them that, “TCS is not the best place for [Sunnie’s] future education,” because her dress and behavior were not feminine enough. As reported by WSET 13 News, the letter emphasized that Sunnie, who sports jeans, sneakers and a short hair cut, could be denied continued enrollment in the school. According to the TCS guidelines, enrollment at the bible-based institution could be refused to students who live in, condone, or support “sexual immorality; practicing homosexual lifestyle or alternative gender identity; promoting such practices; or otherwise having the inability to support the moral principles of the school.” The letter cited Bible verses, which they say are the basis of TCP’s principles. The letter sent from Timberlake Christian School. (WSET) Additionally the principal wrote, "We believe that unless Sunnie as well as her family clearly understand that God has made her female and her dress and behavior need to follow suit with her God-ordained identity, that TCS is not the best place for her future education." The correspondence understandably upset Sunnie’s grandparents, Doris and Carroll Thompson, who adopted and raised their granddaughter. Carroll told the station, “How do you label a child, 8-years-old, or discriminate against an eight year old child? It just don’t happen.” Doris said, "How do you tell a child when she wants to wear pants and shirt, and go out and play in the mud and so forth, how do you tell her, ‘No you can't. You've got to wear a pink bow in your hair and you've got to let your hair grow out long.’ How do you do that? I can't do that.” The Thompsons feel that Sunnie is a completely normal girl and the school’s stance is absolutely unwarranted. Soon after they received the letter, the Thompsons pulled Sunnie out of TCS. Doris said, “She cries every morning to get on the bus. She cries when she comes home because she wants to go back to Timberlake Christian with her friends.” The principal also alluded to times when Sunnie’s fellow students were “confused about whether she is a boy or girl.” But Doris knows that her granddaughter is clear about her gender identity as a girl, explaining, "Sunnie says, 'I'm a girl. I know I'm a girl.' And she said well, then you know, you're acting and looking, and wanting to look and act like a boy." Another school administrator told the station off camera, that Sunnie is a good student but the problem extends, “far beyond her hair length.” Adding, “Things disturbed the classroom environment.” School administrators told the station that they’ve made no accusations about “Sunnie being anything or anyone,” but rather, they were just asking that her family follow the school guidelines. The Thompsons are sticking with their decision and reportedly do not plan on re-enrolling their granddaughter at Timberlake Christian School. Video and more info: link
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 28, 2014 17:01:50 GMT -5
When I was a little girl, my mother made me wear frilly dresses...with matching ruffled panties, socks, and hair bows, no less - and she used to perm my hair so I'd have curls. I hated it! I was a tomboy, with no interest in dolls and girly toys (apart from baking sets) - I was into airplanes, trains, rockets, toy guns, chemistry sets, microscopes, and construction sets, and when I grew up I wanted to be either a cowboy or an astronaut. (I guess that was part of the reason my mother didn't like me... ) I always liked clothes, but preferred wearing cute pants or shorts outfits in all sorts of bright colors, and - as I grew older and began work - I gravitated towards more tailored dresses and suits, which upset my mother no end, as she hated my "plain" clothing and thought I should wear ruffles all the time. I grew up OK - my disinterest in dolls became a disinterest in babies, and my love of airplanes led me to become a private pilot...but I was always 100% female, with no doubts about my sexuality; it was just that my interests were different. (I did try to pee standing up one time...but it was just out of curiosity as to why boys did... ) My love of clothing continued, and as I got older I developed a fondness for frilly undies under my tailored suits, and once in a while have been known to wear something with ruffles; I've even come to like wearing dresses. My point is, as far as this little girl goes, her individual tastes and preferences as a person in her own right should be respected...but to a degree. I have to admit, she does look awfully butch! No one is saying she has to wear frilly dresses or - as her grandmother said - "a pink bow in her hair," but surely her grandmother can find her clothing that's cute and comfortable and more to her taste than the boy's clothing she's wearing in the video...and that boy's haircut is far too, well...boyish. I can understand the school's point of view, but surely there's a happy medium! It sounds like both the school and the grandparents are being totally inflexible. Since they purport to be Christians, the grandparents need to keep Deut. 22:5 in mind. Not going to an extreme, such as women shouldn't wear pants, but let's face it - no matter what a girl/woman is wearing, it should not only be modest, but it should be apparent to anyone looking at her that she's female without their having to guess. If I saw this little girl's picture apart from the story, I'd think she's a boy.
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 28, 2014 18:28:41 GMT -5
They can't tell her that she's not acting/dressing properly unless they already know she's a girl.
Logic clearly isn't taught at that school.
And I've had my fill of control-freak Christianity. I've put up with the old (and now denied) "lower pay for harder work" all my life, since my interests have been in engineering and software. I don't miss having my work credited to others just because a woman isn't deemed worthy of her accomplishments or she's "acting like a man". And I have lost all taste for "playing roles" just to fit in to some other people's idea of what half the body of Christ should be doing.
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 28, 2014 20:16:27 GMT -5
From what I understand, the school's issues are largely with the fact that other kids are confused as to what she is, and that's understandable, especially with all the mixed messages kids are getting from secular media - I can see where parents would be concerned. (Read the letter the school sent to the grandparents.)
I don't know what the school's dress code is, but uniforms that are clearly masculine or feminine would help; if they do have a non-uniforms dress code in place and the girl's grandparents fail to adhere to it, well, the grandparents can't complain that she's not welcome in the school.
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 28, 2014 20:42:51 GMT -5
From what I understand, the school's issues are largely with the fact that other kids are confused as to what she is, and that's understandable, especially with all the mixed messages kids are getting from secular media - I can see where parents would be concerned. (Read the letter the school sent to the grandparents.) I don't know what the school's dress code is, but uniforms that are clearly masculine or feminine would help; if they do have a non-uniforms dress code in place and the girl's grandparents fail to adhere to it, well, the grandparents can't complain that she's not welcome in the school. But why does it matter? They can just ask, can't they?
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Post by schwartzie on Mar 28, 2014 21:34:52 GMT -5
Why should kids have to ask someone if "it's" a boy or a girl? Aside from the Biblical mandate to not dress like the opposite sex, kids have enough to deal with as it is, with bi, gay, lesbian, trans-gender, cross-gender, and goodness knows what else... (I heard on a radio program the other there that there are now 41 different designations!)
A few years ago I was in a waiting room with a friend, and we were discussing (in a whisper, just between us) whether someone across the room was male or female - we couldn't figure it out. Finally, it was my turn to be seen, and when I came out my friend said, "It's a girl!" I asked her how she knew, and she replied, "She went into the ladies' room!"
Of course, these days if you're a man feeling feminine, or a woman feeling masculine, some places let you use any bathroom you want....
This world is such a screwed-up mess - I have no doubt this is NOT what God intended it to be - He created MALE and FEMALE, not androgynous beings.
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 28, 2014 21:56:22 GMT -5
Why should kids have to ask someone if "it's" a boy or a girl? Aside from the Biblical mandate to not dress like the opposite sex, kids have enough to deal with as it is, with bi, gay, lesbian, trans-gender, cross-gender, and goodness knows what else... (I heard on a radio program the other there that there are now 41 different designations!) A few years ago I was in a waiting room with a friend, and we were discussing (in a whisper, just between us) whether someone across the room was male or female - we couldn't figure it out. Finally, it was my turn to be seen, and when I came out my friend said, "It's a girl!" I asked her how she knew, and she replied, "She went into the ladies' room!" Of course, these days if you're a man feeling feminine, or a woman feeling masculine, some places let you use any bathroom you want.... This world is such a screwed-up mess - I have no doubt this is NOT what God intended it to be - He created MALE and FEMALE, not androgynous beings. Does clothing determine sexual genetics? How does it make someone androgynous? Isn't "male and female" something we can tell by biology? What about hermaphrodites are they born in sin? I happen to like the differences, and happen to prefer men who are obviously male. But what matters before God is not the flesh, as if he has forgotten what he told Samuel when he was looking for the next king of Israel. God looks on the heart, does not play favorites, and does not put spiritual gifts in pink or blue boxes. We are people, not two species, as if all men have one type of personality and all women have another. I wear pants and T-shirts most of the time, don't feel the need to paint my face to fit in, don't go to salons, don't wear pink or lace, enjoy watching football, tinker with electronics and write my own web software, don't wear jewelry, and would rather chop wood than cook. Am I acting like a man and going against what "God intended"? Don't you (plural) be the judge! (FYI, as a mother of two, no one has ever wondered what sex I am.) It used to be that any woman wearing pants was deemed androgynous. It was once shameful for a woman to cut her hair because she was "trying to look like a man". How fickle is popular fashion! Remember the fashions for men in the middle ages, with all those wigs and frilly lace? Was Jael acting like a man when she drove a tent peg through an enemy's temples while he slept? Was David acting like a woman when he played the harp to soothe Saul's fits of rage, or when he wrote all that drippy poetry? How about male tenors, are they trying to sound like women? And why doesn't everyone have a problem with the fact that most women would be considered ugly and masculine if they didn't wear makeup, get perms, and shave their legs and underarms? Did God make women so that they can't be truly feminine without a salon and a razor? We put far too much weight on the flesh and on ridiculously contrived "roles" to play. Male and female is a matter of biology, and it is God who will judge hearts. I happen to be turned off by androgyny, goth, punk, tattoos, and piercings, but I'm not going to tell them that they're "out of order". But I will speak out against those who play God, or who project their own preferences as divine. I will speak out against cruelty and hatred and cliques, against causing division in the Body of Christ. *Re. the "biblical mandate not to dress like the opposite sex": contenderministries.org/mail/20050515pants.php
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Post by schwartzie on Mar 29, 2014 17:37:03 GMT -5
God's word is as clear as can be: "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." - Deut. 22:5 Since God doesn't change, if something was abominable to Him when He gave the Law to Moses, it's still abominable to Him now. We're not talking about sexual genetics, about the sound of someone's voice, or about preferences in hobbies or occupation, we're talking about a very simple concept: Women should look like women, and men should look like men. That statement makes no sense whatsoever. Fashion is largely cultural; for example, no one wore pants in Israel when Jesus walked the earth - they wore robes, yet there were differences between those which men wore and those which women wore - no one would look at a person and think that they were of the opposite sex. As for the frills and lace and wigs which were so popular in the 1700s, sure, they were popular even among men of the time...but if you look at the outfits that each sex wore, there would be no mistaking a man for a woman (or a woman for a man), no matter how much lace he had on:
Fashion changes with the times; for example, even many Orthodox Jews now accept women wearing pants, as long as they're not the kind of pants a man would wear: they have either a side or a back zipper, and the woman is expected to look modest (pants not too tight, etc.) I've heard the "Oh, God looks at the heart" excuse over and over, often as a reason why people go to church looking like they just came from cleaning out the basement. If that's the only clothing one owns it's one thing, but if not, it sure isn't respectful! People go to church to worship the Lord God, King of the Universe looking like slobs, yet wouldn't dream of dressing like that if they were going to see the Queen of England, or even some local dignitary! I'll say it again (paraphrasing God's command): Men should LOOK like men, and women should LOOK like women!
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 29, 2014 17:52:28 GMT -5
We are not Israel. Quoting the OT on fashion rules, diet rules, travel rules, etc. means exactly nothing to the church. What matters, as Jesus said 'as clear as can be', is love for God and neighbor, no "lording over", kindness, and other matters of the heart. God does not change, but certainly it is "as clear as can be" that his dealings with mankind have changed more than once. Otherwise you must perfectly obey ALL the Levitical laws, including not wearing mixed fabrics, not traveling more than a mile on the Sabbath, and every other little thing. Tell me where God specifies that in order to "look like" a man or woman, one must wear pants and the other must not. Tell me where God specifies exactly where the line is crossed in modern fashion. Tell me the exact rules God gave for these things, or stop being more of a micromanager than God. It makes perfect sense. In fact, when you went on to say "fashion is largely cultural" you were AGREEING WITH ME. The point is this: that if fashion for males and females CHANGES WITH THE WHIMS OF CULTURE, then there is NOTHING ABOMINABLE ABOUT men wearing lace and ruffles, or women wearing pants. IT'S FICKLE, IT CHANGES ALL THE TIME. That was my point, which you agree with yet say is nonsense. Wow. Just... wow. The very nature of God and how he views people is AN EXCUSE? Don't you believe the Bible now? Has God changed? And it's NOT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE whether someone else meets your personal preferences! Gosh, what a control freak.
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Post by schwartzie on Mar 29, 2014 18:25:44 GMT -5
Control freak - me? No, it's GOD'S WORD that dictates that people should look like the sex He created them to be. You don't like it, take it up with Him! Gee, what a..... There's NO QUESTION that little GIRL looks like a BOY.
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Post by PurplePuppy on Mar 29, 2014 20:07:09 GMT -5
I think we have to look at what kind of message the grandparents are giving to this kid.
"Oh, you don't like the school dress code? It's OK honey - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!"
"So the other kids feel uncomfortable about not knowing if you're a boy or a girl? That's fine, after all - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!"
"Oh, honey, you don't think the rules should apply to you? No problem, after all - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!"
I read a post somewhere (probably here) about women in a Christian college who didn't care that their immodest clothing was causing their brothers to stumble; the claimed they had the right to wear anything they wanted to, and if the men didn't like it, too bad - after all, it's all about them, right? WRONG! It's NOT all about us - as Christians, we're supposed to die to self.
"But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." - 1 Cor. 8:9-13
We see society falling apart all around us, because people don't think the rules should apply to them. Even Christians, who are supposed to be salt and light, look no different from the world. You can't pick and choose what parts of the Bible you want to obey, and which you want to ignore; I think the Scripture about not looking like the other sex is abundantly clear.
So, these grandparents are soooo offended that the school objects to their granddaughter's appearance that they're going to send their little darling to a public school? Fine - but those silly grandparents can be assured that the little lesbians there will be all over her.
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 29, 2014 20:27:39 GMT -5
Galatians 3:10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”[e] 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” 12 The law is not based on faith;
Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
Colossians 2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Matthew 6:28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 29, 2014 20:32:44 GMT -5
I think we have to look at what kind of message the grandparents are giving to this kid. "Oh, you don't like the school dress code? It's OK honey - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!" "So the other kids feel uncomfortable about not knowing if you're a boy or a girl? That's fine, after all - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!" "Oh, honey, you don't think the rules should apply to you? No problem, after all - IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!" So, these grandparents are soooo offended that the school objects to their granddaughter's appearance that they're going to send their little darling to a public school? Fine - but those silly grandparents can be assured that the little lesbians there will be all over her. People here sure like to play God, judging and condemning and mocking people you don't know and whose motives you condemn without a trial. Remember that Jesus said he will judge you by the way you judge others... and by what I just saw here, it isn't going to be pleasant. Treat others as you would like them to treat you.
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Post by Dagvelia on Mar 30, 2014 10:31:40 GMT -5
I don't know the whole story in context. I only know what yahoo is feeding me. So there is nothing I can comment on.
But I will make a comment concerning
Yes, they are born in sin. We all are.
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 30, 2014 13:14:45 GMT -5
Since when is quoting the Word of God, and pointing out that people who claim to be Christian should adhere to His standards, being judgmental? As for your allegation that "it isn't going to be pleasant," why is that? Because we believe every word of the Bible, including the admonition that people shouldn't try to look like those of the opposite sex?
If you read the letter the school sent to the grandparents, the kid has issues - she's been in counseling because she has problems with her gender and identity. If these grandparents were truly Christian, they'd raise the girl up properly (Proverbs 22:6) and help her to understand that God created her female, and that's not up for dispute.
Apparently this Christian school (rightly) has standards, and this girl and her family are not adhering to them. The kid is causing problems with other children, causing confusion...and since when do the desires of one deviant take precedence over the welfare of many?
Here's another article on the issue:
And more:
Obviously, there's more to it than the kid just being a tomboy. Seeing as parents send their children to a Christian school at least in part to protect them from undesirable worldly influences, including shielding them from homosexuality that is so rampant everywhere, this girl is not entitled to special treatment and the school has an obligation to guard the other students' morality. Her grandmother claims she "just likes to do boy things," but if you read the letter from the school the second article, there's far more to it than that.
The grandparents are in denial, big time. Grandma talks about Sunnie "having to wear a pink bow in her hair," which is not the issue - it never was; let's face it, she looks like a BOY - there's absolutely nothing feminine about her. These grandparents have an agenda of some sort and, as the school pointed out, they've unfortunately brought the kid into the spotlight for who-knows-what purposes. Incidentally, the school didn't "kick the girl out" - her grandparents chose to remove her.
Unfortunately, we live in a screwed-up world where women have become masculine and men have become feminine (seeing a man wearing earrings makes me want to vomit....) - it's just another attack on the divine order of things.
For those who say that it's just fine for Sunnie to look like a boy because she chooses to, well...I guess you don't see anything wrong with this story either:
Sunnie is 8; that little boy is 5. At that age kids shouldn't be even thinking about sexuality, but Satan is playing with their heads - yet because of their stupid parents/grandparents who are apparently afraid to raise them properly, they're going to be messed up for the rest of their lives.
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 30, 2014 13:15:31 GMT -5
I don't know the whole story in context. I only know what yahoo is feeding me. So there is nothing I can comment on. But I will make a comment concerning Yes, they are born in sin. We all are. Excellent point!
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Post by OnThe3dge on Mar 30, 2014 13:34:53 GMT -5
Re. "born in sin", take it in the context I gave it: that hermaphrodites are not more cursed of God than anyone else, yet they don't fit neatly into either gender, and it was how they were born.
Re. "playing God", I too quoted scripture... about when NOT to judge. We all have to judge things, but when you presume someone else's motives and judge their spirit on the basis of fickle fashions, you play God. By your own standards you will be judged.
Dress how you like, but unless God gave you specific rules for a given culture and time, stop trying to dictate fashion to others. That's all I was saying. But I will not upset people here anymore with such unpleasant scriptures as the ones I posted. Goodbye.
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 31, 2014 12:53:18 GMT -5
Being quite the drama queen, aren't you 3dge? You're right - you're going to be judged by your standards, which apparently include picking and choosing which parts of the Bible you're going to believe.
There's a big difference between "fickle fashion" and "playing God." Our culture tells us that it's just fine for women to wear skirts so short that people can see what they've had for breakfast, tops cut so low to see-thru so that nothing is left to the imagination, clothing that leaves much of the body exposed, freaky tattoos and piercings all over one's body, T-shirts with crude sayings, etc., but that doesn't make them right. As Christians we're expected BY GOD to adhere to certain standards, which include modesty and not looking like the opposite sex - those are rules that are not fickle or subject to change as fashion is; as with all the Word they stand forever...they have nothing to do with fashion, and no amount of straw man arguments is going to alter that.
BTW, since you're so concerned about hermaphrodites, according to Google only between .033% and .05% of babies are born with that condition (which is technically just a birth defect), so it's pretty much a non-issue as far as this discussion goes...and it certainly has nothing to do with fashion or modesty. In any case, via surgery and counseling the problem can be pretty much resolved. Good bye and God bless.
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Post by schwartzie on Mar 31, 2014 14:29:38 GMT -5
OK, as a guy, I don't know much about fashion...although I can tell you as a CHRISTIAN guy, I really hate trying to figure out what sex a person is - it should be obvious. I'd rather see women looking feminine and modest (God made us men visual creatures) - there's enough temptation in the world out there as it is without having to look at half-naked women all over the place! In fact, even though the temps were only in the 50-60s yesterday, I noticed a couple of young women in church couldn't wait to pull out the skimpy tops and shorts! (And those have no place in church regardless of weather.)
I've read though the Bible several times, and am doing so again - I don't recall ever seeing where it says it's OK for women to dress like men, or men to dress effeminately (in fact, my King James condemns that), even though current "fashion" dictates otherwise. Nor can I find where fashion trumps God's commands. Maybe you can enlighten me, 3dge? Or have you given up because you're losing the argument? In any case, I'll pray for you.
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Post by bloodbought on Mar 31, 2014 22:18:22 GMT -5
I don't understand what 3dge is upset about. The Word is clear: people shouldn't dress like the other sex. I don't believe in getting legalistic and saying, for example, women shouldn't wear pants, or never cut their hair - and no one is going to mistake a Scotsman in a kilt for a female - but if someone looks at a person and can't tell right away what sex they are then yes, it's a problem and they need to change the way they look.
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 2, 2014 0:14:10 GMT -5
I don't understand what 3dge is upset about. The Word is clear: people shouldn't dress like the other sex. I don't believe in getting legalistic and saying, for example, women shouldn't wear pants, or never cut their hair - and no one is going to mistake a Scotsman in a kilt for a female - but if someone looks at a person and can't tell right away what sex they are then yes, it's a problem and they need to change the way they look. Exactly! I don't know what she's upset about; she's also stuck on the kid's appearance, and is totally ignoring the fact that the little girl has other problems as well and is in counseling for them. Praying for 3dge - there's something there that we don't know about....
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Post by baydoll on Apr 8, 2014 5:47:21 GMT -5
I don't know the whole story in context. I only know what yahoo is feeding me. So there is nothing I can comment on. But I will make a comment concerning Yes, they are born in sin. We all are. AMEN!!
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Post by baydoll on Apr 13, 2014 6:38:10 GMT -5
You know, something isn't adding up with this story. Why the heck did the grandparents enroll this kid in the first place KNOWING FULL WELL the school's dress code and it's reason behind it? And yet they decided to enroll her anyway??? And then let this girl attend the school dress the way she did? Like they're flaunting it and flinging it in their faces?
I am seriously questioning the grandparent's agenda here. I AM NOT JUDGING THE GRANDPARENT'S SALVATION but I AM judging their FRUITS. And their 'fruits' are very suspicious.
WHY THE HECK DID THEY ENROLL HER in the first place knowing full well the rule were regarding dress and THEN WENT AHEAD AND BROKE THOSE RULES anyway? And then had the nerves to complain about it? IT'S A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL for Pete's sake. What did they expect?
Hey! If you want your kid to attend a school wearing what they want without them getting kicked out then DON'T ENROLL THEM INTO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL THAT HAS A STRICT DRESS CODE!!
Good grief people! How hard is that?
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Post by baydoll on Apr 13, 2014 6:43:37 GMT -5
They can't tell her that she's not acting/dressing properly unless they already know she's a girl. Logic clearly isn't taught at that school. And I've had my fill of control-freak Christianity. I've put up with the old (and now denied) "lower pay for harder work" all my life, since my interests have been in engineering and software. I don't miss having my work credited to others just because a woman isn't deemed worthy of her accomplishments or she's "acting like a man". And I have lost all taste for "playing roles" just to fit in to some other people's idea of what half the body of Christ should be doing. I don't know if 3dge is here or not but I had to respond to this... You are missing the point. The school had a dress code. The grandparents knew full well what this dress code was. They enrolled her anyway. The grandparents let the girl attend school wearing clothes they knew darned well would not follow that dress code. So who is in the wrong here? The school or the grandparents?
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Post by schwartzie on Apr 19, 2014 19:03:34 GMT -5
I agree, baydoll. The grandparents knew the school had a dress code; actually, I'm surprised they don't have uniforms. Anyway, the little girl can dress any way she wants to after school and on weekends; I suspect the grandparents are looking for a lawsuit of some kind so they can cash in. As for other kids asking if she's a boy or a girl, my gosh, what kind of effect would that have on her psychologically? What a screwed-up family!
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