Hi There,
Me and my wife have a religious dispute over our kids school, when we were looking for a school to send our kids to we looked at several local state schools and were not impressed at all. So we made the decision to look at a Catholic Private school, (an all girls school) we went to look at the school and were immediately impressed by their facilities, they have an excelled academic record and over 95% pass rate for kids graduating (it’s a all in one school where the kids stay from starting to finishing school)
Our problem is that we are not catholic; we are actually from as pagan based religion. We made the school aware of this and we also made them aware that our children wore pentagrams, they school said that was fine so long as they wore them under their clothes and out of sight, we agreed to those terms and enlisted our children in the school, paid for their first years tuition, bought their uniforms and school branded note books and stationary and they started school at the start of the last school year.
Everything has been fine up until now when the school has changed principles and the new principle is forcing our kids to attend mass, and is telling us unless our children stop wearing their pentagrams and attend mass and religious studies he is going to expel them from school. Our kids wear very expensive solid silver pentagrams on a gold chain, the principle took them off our kids and refused to let them wear them, he also instructed the teachers to check to see if the kids were wearing them at the start of every lesson and has wrote is very nasty letters saying that we are “disgracing the school by sending our children to school wearing symbols of the devil” in those exact words
I just want to know if we have any legal standing, we want our kids to keep attending that school because of its excellent record and pass rate, but this new principle seems to be putting his religion above our childrens education
So is there anything that we can do?
2007-12-18
07:37:08
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