Catholic School Limits Gay Parents' Role

[davidinalameda]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stjohn14jun14,1,5909772.story?coll=la-headlines-california

An Orange County Catholic school that angered some parents by allowing a gay couple to enroll their two boys last year has drafted a policy that would forbid the men to appear as a couple at school functions, according to a memo distributed to teachers.

In January, officials at Costa Mesa's St. John the Baptist School adopted new admission guidelines that require parents to display "appropriate conduct, in order to support the school's mission and provide positive role models to our students."



this is the school's right but why enroll your child in a school which teaches values opposite of your own?

I'm sure there are other private schools that would love to educate these children

[Deep13]

1. Perhaps that couple needs a policy ...

... of not supporting and paying for their own persecution.

[mitchtv]

2. I am a survivor of 12 years of nuns and brothers

I came out with an education far superior to anything in public schools. Parochials throw you out if you don't keep up. I ended up so fucked up , but very good at paperwork and tests.
The couple, rahter the single ded that shows up should wear some sort of ribbon, or armband in mrmory of his partner's forced absence. Orange Cty-ugh.

[Patiod]

4. Clarification-- your education may have been superior

to anything in public schools IN YOUR AREA, but the same is not true everywhere.

When I was growing up in the rich Philadelphia suburbs, the Catholic schools in the area were mediocre. My parents, who are basically "fundamentalist" Catholics, sent us to public schools because they were so much better than the local Catholic schools which had poorly paid teachers, no gym, no auditorium, no science facilities, etc. Student achievement on test scores, even today, are not up to par with public schools in the same geographic area.


The couple should look into something else. Are Orange County public schools that bad? Aren't there any other kinds of private schools or charter schools in the area. Why pay tuition to an institution that will teach the kids to hate their parents? n

[mitchtv]

5. I suspect I went to school many years before you

at that time there were few lay teachers; almost all religious. The NYC public schools were not that bad yet either.I am talking the 50's here

[TriMetFan]

3. As a Franciscan Catholic and a lesbian

I just don't get it why people are so stupid. When my partner and I started having kids our Church had no school, but we knew that we wanted our kids to go to a Catholic school (public schools in Portland suck). We set a meeting up with our Father and he gave us names of the schools that our Church would have liked our kids to attend. So we pick the smallest one which is a Roman Catholic school. From the very get go we choose not to lie, but also not to be walking around with a neon sign over our heads that was flashing "We are GAY". After 3 years we are one of the most involved couples at the school. Our work that we do for our kids school is a big part of who we are. We have even become friends with some of the parents that were a little up tight about us. They know that they can count on us and that just because we are a same sex couple doesn't mean that we don't want the same things as straight couples do for their kids.
When I tell our friends now about other Catholics not welcoming same-sex couples, our friends are a shame that people can still be so stupid. I guess we are just lucky.:shrug: