This is a prime example of why tort reform is needed for lawsuits against schools both public and private.
Down here in Georgia, like in other parts of the country, parents attempt to have their kids in a better environment by sending them to Christian private schools. Well what happens when some of the kids stop acting like Christians and someone is removed from the school, to try and preserve an environment with high morals? You guessed it, the sinful kid’s father sues the school!
LOGANVILLE — A former Covenant Christian Academy student who was expelled for kissing another girl filed suit Friday against the school.
Jessica Bradley, who now resides in Pennsylvania, was expelled in April 2005 for kissing one Covenant student at an off-campus sleepover and having a relationship with another female student. She and her father, Ron, are suing the school for $1 million, alleging invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract.
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Principal Emmaline McKinnon disciplined Bradley for allegedly violating the school’s code of conduct by having “an inappropriate relationship with another student,†according to the discipline record. Bradley denied that her actions violated school rules.
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David Clark, the Lawrenceville attorney representing the family, criticized the code of conduct for being unclear as to what constitutes inappropriate sexual behavior.
“It’s too vague and it’s unfair to the students because they don’t know what they can do to get themselves expelled,†Clark said
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HELLO!!! This is a Christian school. If Lesbian activity is not “an inappropriate relationship”, then nothing is.
Now I think ultimately the court will side with the school. But that’s not my point in this post. My point is that lawsuits like this take up a school’s time and money. It is the reason why public schools have become so weak kneed in regards to enforcing many rules. Because they have faced so many lawsuits. Now with more parents opting to use private schools the lawsuit-mania is hitting them too. While the school may win this lawsuit, just the expense involved will probably cause them to make costly changes and scare some other private schools into removing any such rules to avoid a lawsuit. Like with the ACLU’s efforts to rid the world of Christmas, gays and their sympathizers are attempting to rid the world of any moral standard. As DL Foster has chronicled on his blog and I’ve even mentioned at my own, there is an effort under way to have the world revel in sin! And in this case the attack is on an institution that separated it’s self from the public school system for the cause of Christ!
Now I’m sure some gay sympathizers are reading this saying, “oh see his post is not showing love, Jesus would want him to show some love”… Jesus wants me to speak the truth. And the truth is that I refuse to sit idle while workers of iniquity attack the body of Christ! The Jesus in me is not foolish enough to mistake that love also involves rebuke when appropriate. And these kinds of attacks against Christian schools must be swiftly rebuked. If I fail to rebuke it, then my Lord will be sure to rebuke me. As it is written:
Revelation 2:12-16 (New King James Version)
12) “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, ‘These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword:
13) “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
14) But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
15) Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
16) Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
Having said all of that, I feel the best protection that schools could have against these costly attacks would be to institute tort reform for cases involving schools of any type. That tort reform should consist of the following:
- Loser pays all court costs.
- Any monetary relief will not exceed $10,000 over and above any money awarded for tuition refunds and other out of pocket expenses.
- All school expulsion cases must go to binding arbitration.
My third item is included because I feel the real source of problems in education is bad parents. If schools have an easier means to remove bad kids (who usually have bad parents), then it will be easier to teach the remaining students who want to learn.
The Independent Conservative takes full responsibility for the content of this post. If you don’t like it, don’t blame La Shawn.
For my fellow Christians that feel I’m being “too harsh”, I wonder if you would say that if this post involved heterosexual immorality? I cover that over at my blog too! As I’ve mentioned before on my own blog, while God views all sin the same, it seems some Christians feel that certain sins should be treated with a softer hand. Sorry, but I’m not one of those Christians.
Update 12/4/2005: I should point out that the case I’ve mentioned here is taking place in GA and is not this other similar case taking place in CA.
