Let us know what you think of this story:FOREST, Va. – An 8-year-old Virginia girl, Sunnie Kahle who keeps her hair short and wears boys’ clothes has left a private Christian academy under pressure from its administration.
Timberlake Christian School’s principal recently told the child’s great-grandparents, who have custody, that they should find another school unless they understand that “God has made her female and her dress and behavior need to follow suit with her God-ordained identity.”
The family transferred the child to public school. Carroll Thompson of Forest, Va., says his great-granddaughter is a tomboy but is being labeled as something else by Timberlake officials.
Doris Thompson says her great-granddaughter knows she is a girl and has never, to her knowledge, wished she were a boy.
Representatives of the Christian school say there’s more to the story, but they can’t be specific because of confidentiality laws.
Good grief, if that’s really all there is to this story, leave the poor kid alone and let he stay at a school. Way to make her grow up hating the church, especially after being rejected by her own family. It sounds like the school admins and probably some parents are real snobs and are using the Bible card as it suits them. :(
On the surface, the action of the school seems drastic. I don’t know how the principal and other school staff might determine, “there’s more to the story,” but without knowing what that “more,” might be I’m hesitant to agree with their expulsion of the young lady.