Out-of-wedlock pregnancy costs Texas teacher her job

[Blake]

What if a student is found to be a bas ?

Should he be expelled?

aborted!

[CosmicCowboy]

?

Guess you don't watch Game of Thrones.

[coyotes_geek]

?

[leemajors]

Personally I like naming them all Snow.

That's just for northern bas s tbh.

[Drachen]

Guess you don't watch Game of Thrones.

Guess you didn't pay attention to early 90's White Canadian Jamaican-sounding rappers.

[Drachen]

lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Guess you didn't pay attention to early 90's White Canadian Jamaican-sounding rappers.

Ya got that gol darn tootin right!

[Drachen]

Ya got that gol darn tootin right!

[Blake]

Ya got that gol darn tootin right!

Sounds like you paid attention to country singers and family TV shows from the late '50s

[TheSkeptic]

It's rewarding illegitimacy.

Why can't that standard extend to the families in the ministry?

It does. Or at least it's supposed to.

Not that I agree with what this school is doing. Having gone to a school like this, I know how horrible those places are.

That said, there's a code of conduct and if she was in violation of that then they're within their rights to fire her.

[ploto]

Bingo

I sent my kids to a private school for the education, not the values.

But you did so knowing the religious values that would be taught there, and you agreed to that (assuming it was a religious private school).

[Drachen]

Bingo

I sent my kids to a private school for the education, not the values.

Same here.

But you did so knowing the religious values that would be taught there, and you agreed to that (assuming it was a religious private school).

I don't think CC or I would argue against the values being taught there, we are just saying that the reasoning for doing so isn't as geneous as WC made them out to be.

I can't speak for CC, but I would have sent my daughter there with or without the religion class (especially as I am an atheist).

[ploto]

This is a really small Christian school that has less than 300 students combined in its K3-12th grade.

Given their clear mission and statement of beliefs, I find it pretty hard to buy that she had no clue they would have a problem with her being pregnant and unmarried.

MISSION

Heritage Christian Academy is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based Christian school. Heritage desires to work in partnership with families from across the spectrum of the body of Christ to produce a distinctively Christian, college preparatory environment. We believe that the opportunity to see Christ-centered young people who are well prepared spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically become leaders in a secular world is the legacy and heritage this school wishes to impart.


Statement of Faith

We believe in the verbal inspiration of both the Old and New Testaments, i.e., that the very words of the original Scriptures are infallible and inerrant and that they are our final and absolute authority in every area of life and knowledge.

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three coequal persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is both undiminished deity and genuine humanity in one person forever.

We believe that God the Holy Spirit is a personal being who convicts the world of sin and who regenerates, indwells, empowers, guides, and bestows spiritual gifts on believers, and who seals them eternally for God.

We believe that man was created by a direct act of God in His image, not from previously existing life, that all men sinned in Adam (the historical father of the entire human race) and thus incurred both physical and spiritual death; and that all men have inherited sinful nature.

We believe that Jesus Christ died as a subs utionary sacrifice for our sins and that through faith in Him as Lord and Savior, we are declared righteous by God.

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, totally apart from human merit, and that the experience of regeneration produces a new creature in Christ, eternally secure.

We believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and that He ascended into heaven, where He continually ministers as our great High Priest and Advocate.

We believe that this age will be consummated by the literal, visible, bodily return of Jesus Christ to this earth.

We believe in the resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

We believe that all believers are under the mandate of Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel to the world.

http://www.heritagechristianacademy.org/aboutus.html

[CosmicCowboy]

Same here.



I don't think CC or I would argue against the values being taught there, we are just saying that the reasoning for doing so isn't as geneous as WC made them out to be.

I can't speak for CC, but I would have sent my daughter there with or without the religion class (especially as I am an atheist).

although I'm not an atheist, i'm more in the intelligent design camp, but my own version of it.

[Drachen]

ploto, I don't think that anyone was arguing that the school didn't have the right to fire her (just fyi). OP was attempting to make christian schools out to be hypocrites. They might be, but OP made a poor case as far as this situation was concerned.

[ploto]

I don't think CC or I would argue against the values being taught there, we are just saying that the reasoning for doing so isn't as geneous as WC made them out to be.

I can't speak for CC, but I would have sent my daughter there with or without the religion class (especially as I am an atheist).

My point is that you know that by sending your daughter there (I think it is a Catholic school) that she will be taught Catholicism and have to go to Mass... You can't complain that your daughter is being taught religious views against what you believe when you choose to send her there knowing what comes with it.

The teacher knew what came with working there.

[ElNono]

This is a really small Christian school that has less than 300 students combined in its K3-12th grade.

Given their clear mission and statement of beliefs, I find it pretty hard to buy that she had no clue they would have a problem with her being pregnant and unmarried.

MISSION

Heritage Christian Academy is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based Christian school. Heritage desires to work in partnership with families from across the spectrum of the body of Christ to produce a distinctively Christian, college preparatory environment. We believe that the opportunity to see Christ-centered young people who are well prepared spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically become leaders in a secular world is the legacy and heritage this school wishes to impart.


Statement of Faith

We believe in the verbal inspiration of both the Old and New Testaments, i.e., that the very words of the original Scriptures are infallible and inerrant and that they are our final and absolute authority in every area of life and knowledge.

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three coequal persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is both undiminished deity and genuine humanity in one person forever.

We believe that God the Holy Spirit is a personal being who convicts the world of sin and who regenerates, indwells, empowers, guides, and bestows spiritual gifts on believers, and who seals them eternally for God.

We believe that man was created by a direct act of God in His image, not from previously existing life, that all men sinned in Adam (the historical father of the entire human race) and thus incurred both physical and spiritual death; and that all men have inherited sinful nature.

We believe that Jesus Christ died as a subs utionary sacrifice for our sins and that through faith in Him as Lord and Savior, we are declared righteous by God.

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, totally apart from human merit, and that the experience of regeneration produces a new creature in Christ, eternally secure.

We believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and that He ascended into heaven, where He continually ministers as our great High Priest and Advocate.

We believe that this age will be consummated by the literal, visible, bodily return of Jesus Christ to this earth.

We believe in the resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

We believe that all believers are under the mandate of Jesus Christ to proclaim the Gospel to the world.

http://www.heritagechristianacademy.org/aboutus.html

Where in all that banter one would deduce such a thing?

[Blake]

We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is both undiminished deity and genuine humanity in one person forever.

So this school would have fired Mary too?

[CosmicCowboy]

So this school would have fired Mary too?

As much as you disgust me normally, that was funny...

[resistanze]

So this school would have fired Mary too?

[Nbadan]

The bigger issue here, of course, is that private schools are mostly unregulated....it's part of what some parents like about them...no federal oversite....they are not held to the same standards as public schools..

[TheSkeptic]

The bigger issue here, of course, is that private schools are mostly unregulated....it's part of what some parents like about them...no federal oversite....they are not held to the same standards as public schools..

In terms of academics they're usually better though.

[Nbadan]

Usually, but not always....and , unlike public schools, they can exclude or expel anyone they wish...

[Drachen]

Why is this a problem?

[redzero]

marriage