#christian school

[charlesoberonn]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was selling Pride flags at school, it was a Christian school. Then the next day everybody brought guns to school so me and my neighbor ran away into the metaverse.

[the-dyke-of-handsomeness]

Me and my dad pulling up to my Christian school blasting Randy McNally (No love like Christian hate) -TX2:

[maikerusapphire]

things i didn't get at a christian private school:

information on the scientific consensus on evolution

sex ed

a single computer science course (i want to be a software engineer)

things i got at a christian private school:

intelligent design theory

"the biblical model for families"

4 fucking years of bible class

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

Thinking about the weird shit they tell you when you go to a tiny Christian school with a strict dress code and wanted to ask:

I'm sure there was some weird BS conformity reason that they only allowed the girls (because of course it was just girls) to wear stud earrings, but that was the explanation you'd get if you ever asked.

If authority figures fed you a different reason, please reblog and let me know what it is in the tags.

[lionmageaz]

Christian school's pastor cancels Autism Awareness Week, calling it "dem...

Autism is not the result of demonic possession, and having an autism awareness week is not idolatrous or satanic.

Not all Christian schools are this obtuse, of course. Still...

[asherwentinsanelol]

okay I'm gonna vent so yeah

I hate that I end up being angry with the world because of where I grew up. Constantly in christian schools when I was an obviously queer autistic little kid. Last year I had to sit through a kid saying people in the lgbtqia+ community deserve to die. I'm scared and angry because I couldn't say anything. That kid didn't get any sort of pushiment for saying that we shouldn't be alive, that we deserve to die. I wrote queer rights on a bathroom stall wall and had to sit through a 1 hour long sermon about how I was a sinner and deserved nothing in life. I was fucking 11. I'm so angry from keeping it inside so now I'll just bubble up and lose my shit. The fact I have to live in fear because I exist is awful. Fuck you David.

[planeswalker-umbral]

1 fucking shooting gets commited by a trans woman and conservatives are screaming about how trans people take responsiblity for it.

So if trans people have to apologize for a trans shooter, are Cis people going to collectively take responsibily everytime a cis person shoots something up?

[destiel-confession-news]

i understand wanting proof that they did their homework but i think that's a but too much 💀

you can read about it here

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

I'm thinking about the week after my high school graduation. My Christian School was run by a Baptist Church I was a member of and I was in the process of leaving.

I had recently suffered a terrible experience 3 days before the end of school where I was accused of something I didn't do alongside a classmate, threatened with expulsion, and lost my job as church pianist. I got in trouble that only 3 ppl knew about, but that night at prayer meeting, everyone seemed to know I(17 girl) and Sam(19 boy) got in trouble together and ppl assumed we had premarital sex. And my mom raised all hell between school and church, so the pastor/principal called me up to the front after service to talk to me and finally got my side of the story after punishing me severely and NOT asking for my side 8 hours earlier. I wasn't given my job back. Got no apology. And none of them made an effort to fix my reputation that only the pastor, his secretary, or his deacon, could have blabbed about to make me sound like a harlot. And after months of their behavior towards minorities of all sorts making me feel more and more awkward and terrible inside, I decided I would begin the process of leaving. I phased out of that place like a whisper and don't interact with any of them. It's been a decade.

So on this Sunday afternoon prior to evening service, I was sitting in Fellowship Hall with my former HS teacher. She was doing something that involved counting and all I remember was offering to help count despite dreading it(she'd done a lot for me so helping was the least I could do), and then the following incident ruining my numbers and me having to restart.

The secretary, the one who participated in gossiping and slandering me just a week prior, comes up with a clipboard to tell me, "You still owe $400 in tuition, so you'll have to come every Friday for candy-selling until it's paid off."

And I've always hated her ass cuz she has a chip on her shoulder. My mom expressly ordered me to not interact with her as much as I could while still under 18. She is literally annoying af.

The haughty look on her face and the fact that she lied through her teeth in front of my fav teacher... No. I don't have to worry about my behavior at church getting me punished at school anymore. yeah, that was a thing. The rules were BS. Here's a [POST] about my school's student handbook.

"No, I don't," I told her. "Pastor himself, told me in front of many witnesses, including Mrs. Slebodnik here, that I paid it all off and can begin saving for Christian college. He's been collecting that saved up money for me since March, so if you really think I owe hundreds, he has enough in an envelope, and you can just take that."

And she was so blindsided by this because she had a habit of going up to students at random times in the year and telling them they owed [certain number] and had to pay up. Tuition was $125 a month. I was being forced to pay it off since my sperm donor enrolled me and then never paid up.

So I had a $1,250 debt from 8th Gr and that tacked onto when I started candy-selling in the first week of 9th. I was allowed to take about $60 of the overall profit every week through candy-selling and that's $240 monthly for 10 months. So I should have been catching up. And by 12th Gr, I was making about $90 a week as I gained loyal customers who would only buy from me personally. So every month in Senior Year I was getting around $360 from selling candy on Friday alone.

I was doing extra candy-selling on Tuesdays to pay my way through our senior trip to the Bahamas. Since I had to split half of whatever I got with the school, I had to make at least $100 each Tuesday to get at least $50 put away cuz the travel expenses to and back cost more than the cruise itself did. I had 7 months to do this because Pastor couldn't make up his mind what was going to happen. It was hell. I cried a lot. I was the only poor student. Everyone else was selling extra candy for college and I was selling extra so I could at least go on a field trip with my friends for a week. Their parents afforded shelling out $1K+ just fine... and no one wanted to help me. I hated it.

So with this secretary, we came to the assumption that she was pocketing money. I gave you the numbers. A bit of minor math should point out how I was making enough to catch up. If all of 8th Gr cost $1,250 and I make $2400 in 9th Gr, then I paid off 8th Gr and that remaining $1,150 would go toward 9th Gr's debt. Which leaves $100 still owed. So how is it, on New Years Day in 10th Grade(where my monthly earnings from candy-selling had increased even further btw) that was I informed that I was $2K+ in debt?

NYD was Jan 1st. School had been going on for 4 months at that point. $100 from 9th Gr added to the 4 months is $600 even. I was making over $60 a week which is $960 personally earned in those 4 months. So even if you added January's tuition bill to that $600, it would only = $725. So I should have been ahead of the curve. Why was I not?

My mom raised a fuss about those numbers, pointing out with her own math how that wasn't right.

And Ms. Secretary tried that 'you owe money' line with my friend Kali who was super rich and who had Church Leaders for parents and who paid for her tuition, so she didn't have to go candy-selling ever. And her mother did not take that shit lying down.

So I'm just saying... she seems like she pocketed the money.

Anyway, Mrs. Slebodnik went to the Pastor's wife to complain about Ms. Secretary's behavior and since her husband was the oldest serving Deacon of the church, and they made a massive annual donation to the Needy Saints Offering, they couldn't afford to ignore her whenever she had something to say.

I left about a month later.

So yeah, this came to mind and as I'm bitter and love to hate those that deserve it, I had to get this off my chest.

[hey-missy-youre-so-fine]

Lol throwback to that time in 10th grade when I made every single one of my projects for my theology class about Doctor Who.

Literally every project I did was Doctor Who themed. I remember giving a presentation on how Doctor Who quotes related to CS Lewis. I remember writing what was essentially an Athanasius fanfic in which the Doctor interviewed Athanasius. And I also befriended the theology teacher (who I had in 8th grade and disliked greatly) solely because he liked Doctor Who. The sheer power of my Doctor Who obsession is terrifying.

[gramarobin]

[thingstrumperssay]

Every student will suddenly be gay.

[chartreuse-you-lose]

TW Private Christian Schooling

Did you know private christian schools don't require a teaching certification? Period. Literally anyone can get a job as a teacher there. I was talking to my younger siblings and they wanted me to be their science teacher, that theirs was quitting. I laughed and said, I dont have a teaching degree! And they said, it doesnt matter, none of the other teachers do!

I want to throw up!!! I hazarded the question if they even cover evolution in their bio classes, and they told me they only mention evolution to tell the students that its Wrong. The Earth is 6000 years old. I want to cry, this is literally so backward. These schools arent built for any kind of education, just to churn out more Christians. No certifications?? Please can someone help me understand how this is barely even legal??

I went to those same Christian schools as a kid, and the only thing getting me through this right now are the words of a friend who told me, "We turned out ok. We were able to figure things out." Both of us being raised religiously, now two gay adults in STEM. I hope my siblings can figure it out too. Against all the odds, the misinformation, the hateful rhetoric.

Maybe just being around them, I can inspire a little bit of science, a little bit of critical thinking. Maybe not. I'm just one person, against the Narrative. What can I do? There's seven. And I cant even tell them I'm gay, otherwise I wont be allowed to even visit.