"As of Saturday, October 29th, I was given official notice by express mail that I am expelled from Loretto High School. This was given completely without forewarning, without a meeting, and without a chance to say goodbye. My family is now seeking legal advice, and more details will follow."
Please leave her an encouraging comment. (Fedora TIp: Jimmy Akin)
Before someone else says it: Yes, I am aware of the irony here. Ms. Bain was presumably fired "without forewarning, without a meeting, and without a chance to say goodbye". I'm sure the Sills' detractors will say that Katelyn's expulsion is poetic justice. I wonder, though, if the irony might be lost on some of them. I wonder how many people are filled with glee as a result of this, ignorant of the hypocrisy of saying that a teacher shouldn't be fired from a Catholic school for her manifest participation in grave sin, but a student should be expelled for publicly supporting her mother's exposure of that teacher's deeds. Then again, maybe nobody will think or say such things.
Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
Update 11/02/05: Rick Lugari at De Civitate Dei has posted part of a letter that was sent to members of the Loretto community. It alleges "malicious language, taunts, threats, abuse towards members of our school community, gossip, rumors, unkind language and behavior". Meanwhile, the Sills have given a statement to the Sacramento Bee, saying that the "charges are categorically false and defamatory".
Funky Dung
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Interesting take on Catholic Students and Personal blogging.
What is "our take" on the legality of expulsion from a Catholic School for opinions posted on a blog when reading the article:
Catholic University Threatening to Expel Student for Calling Homosexual Acts 'Subhuman'
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05102804.html
Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry Curious. =)
Cheap Grace
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Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 2:00 pm ¶I just wanted to point something out:
When my mom tried to talk to Ms. Bain at Loretto's Open House and mentioned that she (my mom) spends a lot of time at "29th and B St"(the location of Planned Parenthood), Ms. Bain gave the impression that she had no idea what my mom was talking about.
Also, Loretto had two weeks before Ms. Bain was fired in which they were supposedly "investigating." I would assume that Ms. Bain was notified that she might be dismissed. Thus, Ms. Bain had at least two forewarnings of being dismissed.
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Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 5:39 pm ¶Thanks for dropping by to clarify things, Katelyn.
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Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 5:50 pm ¶Has anyone who knows how to do that sorrt of thing thought about setting up a legal defense or scholarship fund for the Sills family?
I have no clue how to do that properly, but I'm sure a gazillion of us would be glad to kick in.
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Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 8:28 pm ¶I think you can set up a special account at a bank — don't they do that sometimes for people with medical expenses and the like?
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Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 9:19 pm ¶Too bad. But it might be for the best. Loretto sounds like one of those Catholic schools that have the name but not the spirit.
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Posted 02 Nov 2005 at 12:37 am ¶Eric, I don't think the teacher should have been fired or the student expelled, and I question the school's reasoning behind either decision. What people do on their personal time is their business, and I think this school is setting a dangerous precedent that I hope some legal body will correct at some point in the near future.
With that said, I have no sympathy for the student who was expelled. I think her expulsion was unjust, but I'm certainly not going to sympathize with her. Perhaps she and her family will think a little more carefully about dragging people's personal lives into the settings of business and/or education in the future.
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Posted 02 Nov 2005 at 5:40 am ¶Do we have any knowledge of why she was expelled?
Without any sources other than her it's really very hard to comment on it substanitively.
We cannot say whether or not it was just, because we do not know the grounds on which it was done.
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Posted 02 Nov 2005 at 3:30 pm ¶It strikes me that the school has no reason to lie about what happened and the Sills have every reason.
Schools are dedicated to teaching, and generally hate to turn someone away.
Especially someone whose checks keep clearing.
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