Wouldn't it have made more sense to keep the girl in the school, where she could benefit from being taught a less compromising Christian morality?
It appears that all the adults in the situation have abdicated any responsibility to wholesomely nuture the child (I realize that this is primarily the mother's responsibility). At least the school could have been one anchor in this child's life. My impression of her now is as of one who is adrift, who, undoubtably, will be tossed here and there by all that going on now.
It appears that all the adults in the situation have abdicated any responsibility to wholesomely nuture the child (I realize that this is primarily the mother's responsibility).
Is it productive to spend all day teaching a child about Christianity, only to have the mother undermine it every evening? As you correctly pointed out, it is the mother who has the chief responsibility to raise her child. If she is acting at cross purposes to the school, the child does not benefit.
SD
Yes, I agree with you.
I think the school and the parents have a perfect right to enforce the agreement they all signed. And it is important to counter all the nonsense that somehow dancing naked in front of strangers is o.k. if you use part of the money for your daughter's tennis shoes.
But you make the excellent point that the school would serve the child's welfare better, by their own definition of her welfare, if they kept her in the school and used their influence to teach her to save her virginity and modesty for her future husband.
Honor the fact that word she gave to the school has been broken by her posing for Playboy and the daughter should be expelled.
The school just doesn't want another PR nightmare..they are compromising themselves by keeping her in school and viewing the inernet porn of Ms. Slivas while deciding to oust her from the Sunday School teaching job.
Toss her and the child out after they saw the gas station calender and were humiliated within the community.