I pay good money every month to make certain my kids are educated by people who believe the Bible is God's Holy Word. The public schools ridicule my beliefs and actually teach concepts that are completely contrary to the Word of God. I chose to pay extra to have them educated in God's wisdom. I would expect the school administrators to carry-out enforcement of school rules regarless of whether the pagan world agrees with our views. The family should be expelled. They broke the rules willfully and assumed nobody would notice or care.
Okay. I homeschool for the same reason, as I mentioned earlier.
However, last I checked, God's wisdom DOES include caring about those and reaching those who do not know Him.
Given the fact that the two women signed a covenant that they did not live by, it makes sense that the school called them on it. They are a private school with certain standards, and that is their right.
But I am really tired of Christians who are so exclusive that they wouldn't allow a kid who lives in rather difficult circumstances to attend school. If the kid is disruptive, or if the parents are lying, fine...expulsion seems okay. But this thread has delved into the "we have standards, and they aren't welcome among the 'righteous'," and, quite frankly, I find that Pharasaical and antithetical to the message of Christ. Christ welcomes all to the table, and getting sin out of our lives is a process, not always a once and for all.
Again, I hope that this school was prayerful in their dealings with the family. I do not subscribe to "whatever lifestyle, whatever you want to do is okay with Jesus" philosophy, but equally heretical is the "no one welcome who isn't exactly like us" mentality. It is a narrow road.