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Heddi

(18,312 posts) Fri Mar 10, 2017, 05:48 PM Mar 2017

Fearing gov't control, trans bathrooms, Christian preschool closes

https://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2017/03/10/fearing-govt-control-trans-bathrooms-christian-preschool-closes

Fear over government regulations trumping Christian teachings, along with the Obama administrations’ transgender bathroom mandate sweeping across America’s schools, is causing a state-funded Christian preschool in Florida to shut its doors for good at the end of the semester in May.

School officials are wary that that the way the government has cracked down over the years on Christianity with its secular worldview dominating curricula and campus policies, their faculty and staff will soon be forced to compromise their Christian teachings – and even require them to provide bathroom accommodations for children who consider themselves to be “transgender.”

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For more than a decade, state funding has helped keep the school afloat financially
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Approximately 60 percent of the preschool’s enrollment is funded by the VPK program, which amounts to about $2,300 per 4-year-old student annually, with parents paying for the remaining 40 percent of children in attendance – who range from 1 to 3 years of age.

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"There has always been some concern among a lot of people with taking any kind of government dollars as to whether or not the people could have a say in what you teach, your curriculum, whether or not it is a separation of church and state issue," Deem told CP. "We have built in a protection in our contract with the local coalition office that provides our services for the VPK so that we have time throughout the day that the state is not paying for in order to alleviate any possibility of being challenged on teaching Christian values on the government dollar."
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"They cite things such as installing transgender bathrooms or teaching values that are opposed to what the church actually stands for and the values that each independent church holds high," the Christian director continued.

Even though many of the 90 or so students attending Gateway are the children of parents who are not members of the church – families that come from all corners of the state capital – elders were not too concerned about opposition from the people the school served.
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Even though she does not quite understand why everything had to come to an early end, she is content knowing that God is in control and has a purpose for everything.

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THEY ARE SO PERSECUTED