Posted on 05/18/2002 9:44:55 PM PDT by let freedom sing
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:36:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A 5-year-old Rancho Cordova girl will return to kindergarten at the Capital Christian School after being expelled last week because administrators discovered her mother works as a nude dancer.
Christina Silvas, 24, agreed to stop working at Gold Club Centerfolds off Highway 50 for at least the next three weeks so her daughter can graduate from kindergarten and attend the end-of-the-year pool party she had been looking forward to.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Your school is. Or, more precisely, you believe that school should focus completely upon the child (or so I take your words). That is a valid viewpoint. But others may choose a different view: that the family is as much a part of the picture as the child...or nearly as much. That is also a valid viewpoint, IMO.
It comes down to a matter of choice by the individual school and explains why I like private schools and loathe public ones: Private schools offer more variety in settings, outlooks, and curriculum. Parents have more choice and everyone can end up getting more or less what they want out of a school.
I've not defended the mother: not because she is a stripper, but because she signed an agreement and broke it, then made a fuss over it when the results of her actions came home to roost. The actual policy of the school is not the point, IMO, but whether the mother agreed to the policy in the first place, which she admits to have done.
The policy itself is a seperate issue, and one that we here have only an academic interest in, as none of us have any children attending the school (that I know of). Evidently, enough people agree with the school's policies to keep it financially solvent. More power to them...but if I had a kid, I wouldn't send him or her there.
Tuor
She's obviously got money from somewhere --maybe generous child support? How much do silicone implants cost and usually insurance doesn't cover that kind of surgery.
I don't want bracelets. I want to spend a little time...er...ministering to Stripper Mom.
Tuor
If you ever want to practice anyway, I'd be a willing test subject. :)
Tuor
Doubt it. Strip clubs want people to drink not throw up.
Hey, what's with the quotes? You mean the outfits they wear on stage are not really indicative of the career they are persuing during the day? :P
it's been awile since i completed confirmation classes-Lutheran-and need help understanding why you say Ms. Silvas "has no clue whatsoever what... a Christian is".
I'm don't have an opinion yet as to the legality/morality of this much talked about 'contract' and its do's and don't do's-is the 'contract' clear and unambiguous?
Which teaching of Christ do you have in mind? In my bible her tells the woman at the well, "Go and sin no more". In your's he apparently says, "Let's party".
This guy became very attracted to a pretty Christian Fundamentalist and contemplating a long relationship with her, he decided to seek out more information about her religion and to take training in the teachings of this religion. He finds a high up church elder and decides to ask him questions about the Fundamentalist beliefs.
First he asks, "Does the religion allow me to drink coffee?"
"Why no," replied the church elder. "We don't believe coffee is a natural product since the beans are treated to enhance their flavor and we don't allow for anything that isn't completely natural."
"Well, what about tea then?"
"Tea's okay because it is totally natural."
"Well what is the church's position on dancing," asked the man.
"We don't allow for that either. We believe that is unnatural also," he replied quoting from the scriptures to make his point.
"Well, what about sex? Do you allow for sex?"
"Of course," replied the elder, "as long as it is between two married people."
"But do you allow for any kinky sex?"
"You will have to describe what you mean by kinky sex," the elder replied.
"Well for example, sex undertaken while standing up," the man responded.
"No, we don't allow for that either.....it could lead to dancing."
If we lived in a large city, that would be true. In our small and extremely Liberal county, the name of the game is "How do we parents keep our children out of public school."
As a result, parents band together for school options. At our Christian school, we have students from all denominations and the prayer services are led by everyone from the Baptist minister to the Catholic priest.
Before the Christian school was available, we sent our kids to a secular private "Co-Op School" where we parents owned the lease on the building and we owned the teacher's contracts. Our Christian school has the same arrangement.
The student in question was a classmate from the secular co-op school. The parents now have to decide how to keep their child out of public school as the co-op school only goes to 5th grade and we go to 7th grade with plans to go to 8th. We are an option to public school.
If you are surprised that an atheist would send their child to a Christian school, you would be floored that one of our Jewish friends is sending her kid to a one teacher, Christian based private elemenary school in town as an alternative to public school. (He played a shepherd in the Nativity play last Christmas. Oy vey!). Last night, she dropped over and was discussion our school as a possible alternative for middle school.
Aversion to public schools makes for strange bed-fellows.
I should also specify that I meant recruiting the parents to send the child to our school. (Note previous post about the school situation in our county.)
Recruiting the kids directly always fails as 6th graders always have trouble coming up with their tuition payments at the first of the month. ;-)
Cole didn't share the good news... it was only the bad. (She wasn't going back to his church.)
And as far as the mother taking it public, she didn't. The administrator of the website admits to having done it without her knowledge or permission.
The administrator placed the information on the website without her knowledge or permission? I don't think so-- she probably signed something somewhere in her centerfold contract, to limit the liability of the webmaster and the club. She probably forgot,-- "she sold her soul to the company sto(re.)"
Skinflint!
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