Students From Private School Lose Funding
A private school has gotten in trouble for its anti-gay message and rule.
As the Baltimore Sun reports, a Harford County Lutheran school is being punished by having to rescind taxpayer-funded vouchers.
The reason that the program is being punished is for denying admission to gay and transgender students.
Within the Trinity Lutheran Christian School’s handbook, it says that that it reserves the right to refuse admission or discontinue the enrollment of any student “who is living in, condoning or practicing homosexual lifestyle or alternative gender identity; promoting such practices or otherwise having the inability to support the moral principals of the school.”
On top of that, the school also reserves the right “to refuse admission of an applicant or to discontinue enrollment of a student of a same sex marriage or relationship.”
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It isn’t so much that the school denies admission of LGBTQ people, but the discriminatory language used in order to do it.
The problem is that the state education panel that choose this punishment for the school ultimately choose a decision that ends up hurting the students more than it does the school. By rescinding the tax vouchers, nineteen students won’t have proper funding in order to pay for their education. Specifically, those nineteen students were reliant on those vouchers to help pay tuition.
That said, those students aren’t being totally left in the dust. State voucher law prohibits the school from expelling those students this year. In this year’s time, the students can use scholarship money and use the time to find a new school to attend.
Its unfortunate that discrimination by the school is ultimately being returned with the revoking of funds for students. Ultimately, it’s the students who lose out.
