PTO Pres Asked to Resign at Catholic School in California
November 12th, 2008 by tsullivanComplex, emotional issue leads to separation between PTO president and her son’s school. Seems that President is a vocal opponent of recent California same-sex marriage ban, but school officials (read: the Church) are vocal proponents. The result: acrimony, a resignation and son (voluntarily) removed from school. This issue is unusually hot, but we’ve heard similar conflicts at public schools often over override or bond/tax/budget efforts.
Should the PTO president be expected to toe the company line?
November 13th, 2008 at 1:43 am
I don’t think the parent should have been asked to resign her post. Why should she be victimized, critized, and sanctioned, for her beliefs? The people who believe they have the right to live this way are very vocal. We live in a country that was built on the freesdom of speech, there are those who would have us forget that. Beware of this fact; we must fight again to regain the ground that has been taken away and keep the ground that is left.
November 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Obviously if they kept their religous beleifs a secret from those that they were participating in such activities with then they knew something was wrong. I believe that they were so accepted into their school community because we (Catholics) choose to forgive rather than exclude. BUT that does not mean that the behavior is right. I also believe that the priest asking the Mom to step down was wrong because it goes against being forgiving. It is ashame that their child has to suffer.
Kathy Paulin
St. Paul’s Catholic School
PTO President
November 13th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Not everyone who volunteers in our parent groups are going to agree on everything that the school, or other volunteers believe in. That families that we serve are diverse in many different ways. Just because one family is diverse in a way that is obvious and related to a hot topic of the day, should not mean that we put them out while keeping another volunteer whose difference is less obvious. Everyone is entitled to their own ways of living, and if we put someone out because of one reason, then to be fair we need to go on a witch hunt to determine what other “sins” are being committed in the families we serve and who serve as volunteers in our schools. Where does it end? How do we choose? Do the people who hide their sins better than those who live their lives openly and honestly get to keep serving our schools?