Kimberly Alford said 15-year-old Kayla Kenney's attire was deemed a violation of Whitefield Academy's policy because it appeared to reflect the LGBTQ community.
over a photo showing her wearing a rainbow sweater in front of a similarly decorated cake.
Kayla Kenney, who was a freshman at Whitefield Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, wore the rainbow shirt to a Texas Roadhouse restaurant for her Dec. 30 birthday celebration.
. Noting that the image followed two years of “lifestyle violations,” he then formally terminated Kenney’s enrollment.in a Tuesday interview that the school, which serves students in preschool through 12th grade and is affiliated with the Highview Baptist Church, rejected her efforts to file an appeal. When she contacted Jacobson by phone, she said he agreed to change the expulsion to a voluntary withdrawal so that it doesn’t appear on Kenney’s academic record.
“If the home environment is not in harmony with the school’s doctrinal belief in the centrality of Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture and Biblical lifestyle, it will be difficult for the school to cooperate with the home and achieve the goal of a student becoming Christ-like,” . “In such cases, the school reserves the right, within its sole discretion, to refuse admission of an applicant or to discontinue enrollment of a student.”This expulsion from Whitefield Academy is sad and outrageous.
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