Can a private school exclude a kid based upon race?
Grin! Physically, yes, but then so is Orange County and the conservative counties way up north.
Has this been settled by legislation or judicial decisions? I had thought that schools were treated as “businesses” and thus could not discriminate (within some limits and exceptions.) An exemption is made for specific religious instruction – non-Catholics can be excluded from catechism recital, and so on – but not for the ordinary schooling part of the school – reading, writing, and rhythmic tic.
(In approximately the same way, a gift shop attached to a church can’t discriminate in hiring, although the church certainly can.)
(On the other hand, didn’t the Salvation Army manage to get a company-wide exemption?)
I hate to say it, but we need Bricker…
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The school, being private, has the right to enrol anybody they want, and bar any they don’t want.
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What were the parents thinking?
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Sounds like the little girl dodged a VERY big bullet being excluded from a school that teaches that homosexuality is a sin. Imagine if she’d been allowed to remain, and in future years being told that her mums are going to burn in eternal hell yada yada.
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One would think that it would be exactly the kids of inveterate sinners that an evangelical Christian school would want to get their hands on. Their parents may be hellbound but the school would have the opportunity to save the poor dear little childrens’ souls and set them on the path of righteousness. Train up a child, and all of that.
I feel badly for same sex couples who want their children to get a private school education, but have no options because non-sectarian schools are either too expensive or have selective admittance, and the only other options are religious schools that reject their kids out of hand. This is going to happen more and more frequently.
As an aside, I went to a Christian school, and my mother was rather rudely grilled about the whereabouts of my father, who had died, and her personal life. Were they married? Was he a Christian when he died? Was she dating or living with anyone? (She wasn’t.) Did she foresee that changing? My mouth dropped open. It should’ve been a sign to run, but she took it with far more grace than it ever could’ve deserved.
No idea, but it isn’t hard to think of reasons why they might choose that school:
- It’s their only affordable option besides a crummy public school
- It’s conveniently located, geographically, whereas alternative choices involve long bus-rides or other hassles
- The girl has several friends who attend
…and so on.
One would think that the outrage that’s being expressed in this thread is minimal to what we’d be hearing if the school had let the kids stay on, and then it turns out a few years down the line that they are teaching them that lesbian moms are an abomination before God.
So I guess Frank doesn’t support making homosexuality a protected class.
It’s probably legal (though I’m not sure it should be), but I don’t get how it’s compatible with Christianity or anything in the bible to turn down a child based on the supposed sins of the child’s parents.
Good questions, I’d like to know the answer too. Seems to me they could if they wanted to, but there’s probably no reason to in their system/religion. The same-sex thing is not just bigotry, it’s specified in their little guidebook.
aren’t we all sinners based on 1 person eating 1 damn apple?
How much crummier can it get? I’d prefer my kids to be taught by random winos in the park than go to that school. If the consensus really is that this is legal, I am pretty surprised . Can a privately funded school really teach whatever it wants? Holocaust denial? White supremacy?
This article gives a few more details:
So the child was already attending. Until the school rewrote its rules. Certainly, as a private school, it already had the right to refuse* any* student; how many private academies were begun to avoid racially integrated public schools? But these educators made sure to single out exactly what sort of sinful child was unworthy.
Therefore, your concern is unwarranted.
Well there are plenty of racists around, and many who try to justify their attitudes on religious grounds. I’d have thought if it was legal for a school to exclude black kids, someone would be doing it.
Yep, totally still a thing.
Love the sinner, hate the sin? Nope, we even hates the product of sin!
Maybe they are just Illinois Schutzstaffel.
Yeah, I meant to complain about that! How hard would it have been to write “same sex”? Cuz when I see “SS” (especially capitalized) I still only think of one thing first.
Tell me I’m not the only person who clicked this thread to find out how the hell a kid could have 55 parents.
You’re the only one, sorry. 
I was hoping those SS parents wanted to send their kid to a Jewish private school.
Thread expectations: not met.