I think the whole thing is overblown. We’ve had very mixed quality encounters with private schools. Some combinations just do NOT work. Usually both schools and parents can grasp that, or why not go some one size fits all route like the government schools.
I’m a bit jaundiced towards the school in this case. Partly because Peppermint Patty tomboy types have always been my favorites, but mostly because of the gratuitous snark about homosexuality. On an EIGHT year old? Please. Unless the grandparents were pushing such ideology via their ward, that has NO application, and ought be retracted.
Can’t tell from the article. As someone said, there is more to this story.
I have always liked tomboys too, but there was no snark about homosexuality, they were repeating a line from their school policy, they made no extraneous comment, probably under legal advice.