Yeah, I get it. Nothing the poor child was wearing existed in biblical times.
I suppose they have something like the following in mind:
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.
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It’s an agenda
>> The school is wrong. That is fundamentalism, and it’s wrong.
Wrong on what grounds exactly?
Her grandparents should be concerned about her weight. Eight years old and already she looks 20 pounds overweight. They should focus on her exercise and portion size. The poor child. It’s not easy being overweight.
This doesn’t sound like the haircut was the main problem
I don’t see anything in that dress code that should have upset anyone-it plainly says the girls can wear slacks, so I doubt that was an issue-and it doesn’t say anything about hair but no extreme styles or colors-that doesn’t jive, either.
Maybe some school administrator got their panties in a twist and offended the grandparents-or vice versa. Either way, it looks like a lawsuit for an enterprising ambulance chaser-cha-ching...
“...she is too young to be that plump...”
My thought, too. If they want to do something worthwhile for this child, get to the root of her overweight problem and stop worrying about her hair.
Frankly, I don’t see why she’d even want to go there. Some of these “Bible-believing” schools rival Muslims for their weirdness about female dress. I see a lot of them here in the South, the little girls trailing around in their long denim skirts, their navy-blue long-sleeved tops and their long, lank hair...but that’s their choice and the choice of their parents. And I’m sure the school, as misguided and silly as I think it may be, put this in their requirements.
If the grandparents (who seem to be paying for this) don’t want to abide by the dress code, I’m sure they could find another school for her.
I don’t think the school should make an issue of this that embarrasses the little girl...who seems perfectly normal and is not exactly a cross-dressing freak...but the grandparents should back off and just find another and no doubt better school. They’re only making it worse this way.
A lot of kids who go to these very repressive “Christian” schools end up doing heavy rebellion (I’ve known some), so maybe they should actually be grateful that she’s getting out now.
I see nothing wrong with the dress code
I agree-that isn’t mentioned, but I’m going to guess that she was being teased about her weight, and if it was mentioned by the school to the grandparents, maybe they thought it was offensive rather than well-meaning advice. Either way, someone is going to be sued, and nobody will be the better for it but lawyers.
The school didn’t make an issue of it, nor did the school turn it into a public jihad
They have a dress code and a demerit (sp)? system. We’re only being told one thing. No longer worth my time.
Generally, Christians have no problem with ‘Tom Boys,’ girls who are girls but like to do boy things. There are such girls/women without a doubt. I think it is a great characteristic. My mom worked on a farm with my dad and she could care for the livestock and work in the fields as well as any man. Yet, every day she was also a loving mom and thought the world of us four kids. She worked her heart out with dad every day at her side to make a living for us. I never thought anything was wrong with a woman being willing and able to get her hands dirty and work along side a man. I am hopeful there is more to this story than a young girl just being a ‘Tom Boy.’
The school isn’t going to say almost anything to the media, we will get one side
Yeah, I get it. Nothing the poor child was wearing existed in biblical times.
I suppose they have something like the following in mind:
The girl was probably doing stuff that neither side is talking about
I can't quote chapter and verse, but I recall one stating that a man should not wear that which pertains to a woman, nor a woman that which pertains to a man. I'll look it up.
KJV, Deuteronomy 22:5- 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.
Schools keep attorneys on retainer for advice-so we aren’t going to hear much more from them-they will have gone to ground...
Once again, the school has said that there’s a lot more to the story than a haircut.
No, the rules forbid sandals.
Oh, good grief! You don't even know what you're talking about. TCA is nothing like that. The only kids I've ever seen dressed that way were Mennonites.
BTW, as for your "Bible-believing" snark, I was under the impression conservative Catholics believed it, too. My Catholic friend and longtime Freeper in NJ, whose kids are in Catholic school, would agree with me.
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