Posted on 05/22/2017 5:14:57 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Student, 18, is suspended for two days and barred from her Christian high school's graduation ceremony because she is PREGNANT
A high school senior will not be allowed to participate in her high school's graduation ceremony because she is pregnant.
Maddi Runkles, 18, from Boonsboro, Maryland, goes to Heritage Academy, a small private Christian school in Hagerstown.
She discovered she was pregnant in January, just a few days after receiving a college acceptance letter, according to the New York Times.
But after she announced her pregnancy, Runkles was suspended for two days.
School officials also removed the 18-year-old from her position on student council and told her she wouldn't be able to join the rest of the senior class at graduation in June.
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Exactly
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Everyone is not entitled to make up their own set of facts. If one wants to set out deliberate falsehoods as facts, they should go to work for one of the major media outlets.
This is "local news" for me.
That senior boy you're so exercised about? He will absolutely not graduate from this particular high school. He will not march in their graduation, he will not receive a diploma from it. From it, he will get NOTHING.
He didn't attend that particular school.
He also didn't sign that particular school's contract covering personal conduct while a student there. She did. Four times. She admitted having done so on WTTG FOX Channel 5 cameras, which was broadcast last night. She also admitted that she didn't take it seriously. "It was just something that you sign ..."
Well guess what, Sparkydoodles? You signed a contract, and now you have to live by it. Maybe you should have kept your legs together.
Also on FOX5 last night was that the school is giving her a "private" ceremony ... and her 14 classmates will likely attend.
Mountain. Molehill.
Tell that to all those self appointed judges contributing
to this thread, not me.
Give me a break. They are actually HOLDING UP standards. It’s about time. 98% of the time we condone these acts by “feeling sorry” for them and allowing everything to go on as normal. THAT is how such people normalize these behaviors and enable them. And they perpetuate and grow.
The girl will still graduate. She just can’t be in the ceremony.
There have been a couple similar incidents in my church. One was a friend of mine. He confessed to me that his fiancé was pregnant and that he would be confessing his sin at church on Sunday. He told me that she was scared to come.
I’d only been attending that church a few months but I told him that my feeling was that he would make his confession and there would be a sharp intake of collective breath. As the service ended, several people would walk over to his fiancé and give her a hug.
That’s exactly what happened.
They never accept the sin, but they also never reject the sinner.
Too many churches get hooked on the power of perfect behavior and sometimes destroy the sinners.
I hope this school sees the light and repents of their sin of arrogance. The girl was wrong, admitted it, is paying the cost the right way by keeping her baby instead of making the problem disappear, something the school masters seem to want.
I think, with all due respect, this is where this issue is being overstated by you and others.
As far as I understand, other than her two day suspension, which seems fair to me, she's only being prevented from participating in the graduation ceremony, not being denied a diploma.
Denied the opportunity to participate in the graduation ceremony itself also seems like a just punishment to me. I agree with Arthur McGowan, now a days, becoming pregnant in high school has become almost like a twisted badge of honor itself, subverting and perverting the pro-life movement, hijacking it even to say, "yeah I got pregnant before marriage but so what? You don't want me to kill my baby do you?"
That's the perverted twisting of it, the hijacking of it for ones own moral gain, that is telegraphed every time a pregnant girl (who's not known to be married already) takes part in a graduation ceremony. She shouldn't be denied the diploma she earned, but at the same time shouldn't be able to hijack the pro-life movement, taking it hostage so that she suffers no consequences for her actions otherwise the school really isn't "teaching" her anything. Anything important anyway.
Thanks. I HATE this “mistakes were made” garbage rampant since Klintoon. Constantly calling immoral behavior “mistakes” instead of what they are - brazen bad CHOICES.
A mistake is an accident. Screwing for fun is no accident.
Many of those “morality Contracts” seem pretty insane and also override parental rights.
Many years ago, as a youth leader, I took a load of kids to an amusement park. A local Christian school was also there. One of the young ladies in my group was terrified because she was wearing very modest shorts and a T-shirt, both of which were forbidden by the school.
Keep in mind this was summer. The school kids were at an amusement park wearing khaki pants, collared shirts and the girls were in dresses (Inappropriate attire for amusement parks)
At one point, she saw the Principal in the distance and began to hide. I told her that if anyone approaches her, she is to refer them to me. She was there that day under the authority of her parents, our church and me, the youth leader. The school held no authority over her that day.
What does the school have to do with this? I’m not getting it. Why would she be worried about some other school’s principal?
As for “girls were in dresses (Inappropriate attire for amusement parks)”. Somehow, they managed back in the ‘50s and earlier! There’s nothing wrong with skirts and so on at an amusement park. Inappropriate, my foot.
First, I had no idea why the school had the arrogance to think they could override the parents decisions in non school activities and times.
Second, in the fifties, carnival rides were a bit less thrilling. I said that a dress wasn’t appropriate in regards to the young ladies personal modesty perhaps being compromised by a 80 mph roller coaster maybe billowing the drew up in ways she may not find appealing but in ways the young men around her would.
Certain clothes in certain situations are inappropriate. I once had a boss that required us for a short time to wear business suits on sales calls. I recall a call to a heavy equipment factory. I was there to try to diagnose and fix a problem, but I sure wasn’t spending much time crawling around in a suit. Appropriate my foot.
Lots of “Christian” schools are just as secular as public schools. I grew up with kids in Christian schools. The kids could out drink me and the girls were as easy as the public school girls.
I am not in a position to judge that. I am in a position to pray for her, that she grow in holiness and Fear of The Lord. It would be good if folks would pray for me, as well ...
I will pray for her and her family, for His mercy endures forever.
What is worse Christian schools doing this gives fodder for Planned Parenthood to keep abortion legal.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
The offender will pay the penalty one way or another, standards are used in hopes that these young people will not have anything to pay.
If they are told to go ahead and do anything that feels good going to keep them from doing it? no, that has already been tried which is why we are on this subject.
So if there is a school which still has standards by all means let them uphold their standards just like they should have upheld their standards for grading students and did`nt which caused most kids to never learn how to read or do sums with out a calculator.
..I mean shame in taking it to the Times!
She needs help...not a hammer.
She is the one who made the mistake and now trying to make assholes of every one else, and looks like she is doing what she set out to do.
Pregnancy should not be a cause of punishment.
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