Posted on 03/25/2014 12:04:50 PM PDT by Dallas59
Timberlake, VA - Sports, sneakers, and short hair; it's what makes eight year old Sunnie Kahle unique. It's also what had her removed from Timberlake Christian School. Her grandparents pulled the plug on her time there after they said she was no longer welcome.
The family received a letter telling them that if their eight year old granddaughter didn't follow the school's "biblical standards," that she'd be refused enrollment next year. She's out and in public school now.
Sunnie Kahle has short hair and a huge heart, and as far as her grandparents are concerned, she is a completely normal little girl.
"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," said Doris Thompson.
(Excerpt) Read more at wset.com ...
I watched the video, she looks like a little tomboy....so what? I fail to see any proof that she is gender confused. What is with people?
The school has a dress code. It is irrelevant as to what you or I think the Bible says about it. The school has a right to enforce a religious dress code and anyone that doesn't wish to abide by that code can send their children elsewhere.
This is just another attack on religious liberty. I feel sorry for this girl that she has grandparents that refuse to give her guidance in her sexual identity. If they are encouraging some mixed up gender identity, then they will have to answer to God.
Or “mama” might be a drug addicted woman with no ability to take care of any kids let alone herself. Daddy may have been a one night stand for “mama”.
Doesn’t matter. That’s all anything thinks about here anymore...
long hair = scarf = hijab
long hair = scarf = hijab = Islam
I have little sympathy for the family.
Both my sons attended a local Catholic high school. Both my sons wore fairly robust sideburns. Between the graduation of my first son and this year, my younger son’s senior year, the new rector has tightened hair standards. The sideburns with which my older son graduated are no longer acceptable, and my younger son was asked to “trim” (more like “truncate”) his sideburns. He came home, told us, and then shaved his sideburns off.
No muss, no fuss, no crying, no complaining. No newspaper coverage, no nothing.
The school has a right to have and enforce dress and grooming standards.
Just gee whiz, some people are drama queens.
Always wonders me how stories like this get in the news.
Sure the school can do what they want. But I will tell you straight out that having short hair does NOT make one non-Biblical ( yeah I know the scriptural reference). Too bad this school cannot see belief in one’s Savior as more important than the ‘do dos’.
It is a rule at a private school. Follow them or don’t go. We have a similar dress code at our PRIVATE Christian School.
And that's the point. On the surface, this seems like a silly situation, and barring any other evidence, the school was probably silly to have created an scenario where the girl was pulled out. But religion is voluntary in our society: you don't have to participate, and if you don't want your child in a particular private school because of its particular sectarian rules, then don't put her in there, or pull her out of there, and send her somewhere else, and then let it go.
I am an LCMS Lutheran. Given the option, I did not put my children in a Catholic school, because I did not want them to have to participate in that part of Catholic ritual which runs counter to Lutheran teaching. But I didn't try to make the Catholic school accommodate my Lutheran children, nor would I expect the Lutheran school to be forced to accommodate Jehovah's Witness children, or Christian Science children, or Sunni Muslim children, or Theravada Buddhist children, or logical positivist atheist children. It's called religious freedom.
I was a tom boy as well.... With five challenging children (we really were brats in retrospect), my mom couldn’t keep up with all my activities and long hair....hence I got short hair.
I had to wear a dress to school because that is what the dress code was in those days but the minute I got home I was in jeans or shorts and a t shirt. It didn’t make me a homosexual or immoral or anything else. It made it easier to to take care of five active children
The little girl may have not been interested in religious training. It happens.
nicely played
“Christian values”.... which are what exactly?
Since when is short hair or wearing a dress or not playing sports a ‘Christian’ value???
There are Pharisees in the modern day and it is important to recognize them
My great great grandmother was “agnostic” up until her last days. She accepted Christ a few days before her fatal heart attack. The thief on the cross had faith but lived a life of crime punishable by mans law of death. Christ forgave him in the last few minutes of his life and took him to heaven.
I don't see any proof that she isn't gender confused, either.
Like others have said, there's likely more to this story than the kid's hair length; the school said as much. But the grandparents, like so many these days, want to publicize their feeling of outrage, and go running to the media so they can wallow in the well of PC sympathy.
The school better have more than the info in that letter to go after an 8 year old child. Like it or not, she is just a little girl.
People are just dying to contact the media and make their outrage known. Notice the grandparents characterized this as a "personal attack." All emotion.
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