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Christian school wants photos of 8-year-olds 'in bathtub' — fights dirty when parents object
theblaze.com ^ | September 27, 2022

Posted on 09/27/2022 8:09:15 AM PDT by lowbridge

An 8-year-old student at Victory Christian Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, was "administratively withdrawn" from school after her parents objected to a homework assignment instructing second-graders to “send picture of you doing reading homework in bathtub,” reported parents Misty and Christopher Dunham.

Christopher told CBS-47 that he and his wife were shocked when their 8-year-old said she needed to send a picture of herself in the bathtub doing her reading homework to her second-grade teacher.

"I emailed the teacher [to say] 'Hey, you may want to explain that. Send something out to the parents. Let them know what the intentions are.' This just does not sound OK," Misty explained.

Though the teacher responded by adding that students could "be in pajamas, be in your uniform, have fun with it," something about the assignment still "didn’t sit right," Misty explained. So she reached out to the school administrators, who claimed that “we have been sending this homework assignment for years, and you’re the only one complaining about it."

Soon after, a school administrator called to encourage the Dunhams to "do a parental withdrawal for the child."

When Misty refused to withdraw her daughter, the administrator said the school was "going to proceed with an administration withdraw.

"CBS-47 reported that school documentation indicates that the Dunhams' daughter is "no longer a student at Victory Christian Academy.

"On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales and guests Matthew Marsden, Tayler Hansen, and John Doyle discussed the strange homework assignment and the Christian school's draconian reaction when parents raised objections.

"Just because they say it's a Christian academy doesn't mean that it is," Marsden warned. "You don't do this

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; florida; jesselatta; school; victorychristian
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To: newzjunkey

OMG!!~!~! You must have had MANY traumatic events!!! You think this is to see who has the NICEST bathtub??


41 posted on 09/27/2022 9:37:01 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Don’t call the school. This sounds like troublemaker parents looking to cash in by spinning a creativity assignment as something inappropriate.

If the school was getting a shakedown, they were smart to expell the parents.

If you want to be a phone activist, there are plenty of government schools guilty of real child abuse.


42 posted on 09/27/2022 9:45:15 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: PCPOET7

I just don’t see the point of taking a picture in a bathtub. What is that teaching?


43 posted on 09/27/2022 9:47:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

water is wet......maybe


44 posted on 09/27/2022 9:50:21 AM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: Pollard
This school's homework assignments require parent signoff, and in some cases, parent participation.

People are falling for the anti-Christian bait. This is nothing like the secret grooming and abuse we see so much of in government schools. The state media is trying to convert a government scandal into a religious scandal.


45 posted on 09/27/2022 9:56:06 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
You have your opinion.

To me this stinks to high heaven, especially considering what is going on in public schools. If the school is too stupid to realize the terrible optics of this, then shame on them.

46 posted on 09/27/2022 9:57:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Getready

Exactly! I don’t have kids, but I can’t imagine some dad somewhere not taking out one of these loons or pervs.


47 posted on 09/27/2022 9:59:51 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: CitizenUSA
Bold-faced/bald-faced are about the same. Here's a link that explains it.

Is That Lie 'Bald-faced' or 'Bold-faced'? - Merriam-Webster

48 posted on 09/27/2022 10:36:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: lowbridge

Even if no harm was intended, whoever made that assignment must have been from another planet not to have seen the trouble it would cause.


49 posted on 09/27/2022 10:43:29 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Ann Archy
OMG!! Just the THOUGHT she or HE wanted PICTURES of KIDS in BATHTUBS is PURE SICKNESS!

Even making the heroic assumption that the teacher isn't a pervert, why would parents want someone so obviously clueless to be teaching their children? Any thinking person would realize that this is creepy.

50 posted on 09/27/2022 10:57:27 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Robert DeLong

There are a lot of perverts claiming to be Christians. They are proclaiming judgment upon themselves


51 posted on 09/27/2022 11:01:31 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Tennessee Nana

Wow, what an obtuse reply!

Exactly how many eight year olds associate the bathtub with pajamas on?

...please tell us you simply forgot the sarcasm tag


52 posted on 09/27/2022 11:06:27 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burdern, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: newzjunkey

“This assignment just doesn’t bother me. “

Does it bother you that the kid was kicked out of school because the kid’s parents complained about it and then refused to withdraw their kid from the school at the request of the school?


53 posted on 09/27/2022 11:24:57 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: dfwgator

with younger kids a lot of times schools will do weird things to make schooling fun ....bath tub thing is just stupid


54 posted on 09/27/2022 11:51:25 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: lowbridge

Yeah that is just not right. Our Christian school asks permission for things like vaccines and would never ever go against a parent’s wish.


55 posted on 09/27/2022 12:02:08 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Tennessee Nana

True, but still it’s an odd request. Why would a Christian school remove a student merely because a parent questioned the assignment. Seems bit over-reactive.


56 posted on 09/27/2022 12:02:21 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Boogieman

Just like the media doesn’t find anything odd about Biden and little kids with his hands, mouth, sniffing. Kids aren’t naked and he’s not actively fondling them but it still is creepy.


57 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:54 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Since when is questioning a homework assignment for a child to have his/her picture taken in a bathtub anti-Christian?

Victory Academy is not listed as a Baptist school - so exactly is behind this school and its curricula?

58 posted on 09/27/2022 12:27:11 PM PDT by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: lowbridge

They’ve been doing this for years? How many pics have they collected? A FIB raid may be in order.


59 posted on 09/27/2022 2:29:07 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Ann Archy

There are no lines anymore, Ann Archy. We all need to start restoring some!


60 posted on 09/27/2022 2:34:57 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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