Eastside Catholic resumes school; will discipline protesting students

[trotsky]

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Eastside-Catholic-resumes-school-protesting-students-will-be-disciplined-238813151.html

Letters sent to Eastside Catholic High School parents and faculty indicate if there are any campus protests over former Vice Principal Mark Zmuda when school resumes Monday, those students will be sent home.

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The controversy stems from a decision on December 20 to remove Zmuda from his position. Over the summer, he married another man, which is against Catholic teachings and therefore, against the Sammammish Catholic school.

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Parents were informed of a new "Effecting Change" workshop, for students to voice concerns on the Catholic Church and its future. At the same time, they were told if their child protests Zmuda's departure, they will be sent home.

[Goblinmonger]

1. Effecting Change: a workshop

This workshop will show students the proper way to voice concerns about the RCC. In short, don't or we'll kick you out.

[trotsky]

2. Bingo.

I'll give them credit, though, for maintaining that same message over the last 2000 years.

[msongs]

3. discipline will NOT include anything that reduces the flow of $$$ from students/families nt

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I work in this city.

I have no fucking clue where this church disguised as a school is supposed to be...

Is it the one by the rifle range?

Edit: OH, it's up on the plateau. Right next to all the rich neighborhoods. You can't piss in a 360 degree circle up there without hitting a church of some sort or another. Apparently it's a good place to mine cash.

[dimbear]

5. I had this explained to me by the pros. There is plenty of room for dissent in the Roman Catholic

Church. There is just no room for error.

[rug]

6. Let's see what happens January 31

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12214093

[Humanist_Activist]

8. Those students are going to get a lesson in how the Catholic Church operates...

Better for them to learn now and plan to leave when they reach the age of majority than waste their lives and efforts in that corrupt institution.

[cbayer]

9. They are going to wear orange.

What do you imagine the Catholic church will do to them?

[Humanist_Activist]

10. Probably send them home, suspend, possibly expel a few...

they already threatened to send them home, for how long, who knows, probably long enough to mess up their academic records.

[cbayer]

12. Send them home? Big whoop.

Protesting for just causes may require taking the consequences.

I doubt very much it will interfere with anybody's academic record. That would not be in the school's best interest.

[Humanist_Activist]

14. It is a big whoop if they miss assignments or tests, and can't make them up.

This was called, in my high school, out of school suspension.

[cbayer]

16. Too bad. My school was full of protests.

First for civil rights, then anti-war.

The causes we believed in were much, much more important than being sent home.

But that wasn't a catholic school.

I am sure they will pull out the rack and other torture devices for these kids.

Be afraid, be very, very afraid.

[okasha]

17. Extra calculus homework.

At UT Austin, those of us who protested the Vietnam war got called "dirty hippies" by the chairman of the Board of Regents. Oh the horror.

[cbayer]

18. I know. And that wasn't even a catholic school.

Can you imagine the horrors these poor children face??

[okasha]

19. They might even

have to read Moby Dick.

[cbayer]

20. Or Ulysses!!!

[okasha]

21. At my Catholic High school,

Ulysses was only for mortal sins.

[rug]

7. An interesting development:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Controversy-over-gay-teachers-continues-at-Eastside-Catholic-239181591.html

[cbayer]

11. Whoa! The board chair resigned.

The drama teacher has a different status, but it is a good sign that they are going to review their policies to "prevent this from happening in the future".

[rug]

13. "citing a need to 'take a break'".

I bet.

[okasha]

15. Now, now.

We've all been told repeatedly that nothing associated with the Catholic church will ever lead to the acceptance of LGBT persons. This is just a ploy of some kind to further their bigoted, homophobic agenda.