Christian School Expels Child of Lesbians

A Christian school in Ontario expelled a student Thursday because her parents are lesbians, according to a letter from the school’s superintendent.

Freshman Shay Clark, 14, was told to leave Ontario Christian High School after administrators learned of her parents’ relationship this week.

“Your family does not meet the policies of admission,” Supt. Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, Shay’s biological mother. The policy, he added, states that at least one parent cannot engage in practices “immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style [sic] such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship.”

The letter included two checks refunding $3,415, Shay’s tuition for half the school year and an art fee. Attempts to reach Stob were unsuccessful.

Clark and her partner, Mitzi Gray, have been together for 22 years, and have three daughters; the others are ages 9 and 19. Clark and Gray said school officials learned of their relationship after Shay and another cheerleader were reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game Sept. 16.

After Clark was told that her daughter could no longer attend the school, the mother was ordered to remove Shay from cheerleading practice, collect her daughter’s belongings and leave the property. Shay and her parents say they will not appeal the school’s ruling. Shay will attend public school next week.