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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    f this rule doesn't apply to the "father" ...
    I am 99.9% sure that the news article I read (different from the one posted here) said that the young man is not a student there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KaySharpe View Post
    I am 99.9% sure that the news article I read (different from the one posted here) said that the young man is not a student there.
    Right, here's another article with more details:

    ...As the New York Times initially reported on May 20, Runkles has no prior disciplinary record at Heritage Academy. What she does have is a 4.0 average, a spot on the school soccer team, and a history of serving as president of the student council (though the school has since taken that position away from her).

    She also had sex at least once sometime late last year, resulting in her current pregnancy. (Runkles has not identified the father, but said only that he does not attend Heritage, and she does not intend to marry him).

    Runkles realized she was pregnant in January. After her pregnancy became obvious, she was suspended from school for two days. The school also considered forcing her to finish her senior year at home, but instead "compromised" by deciding she could finish out the year, but could no longer serve as student council president, nor could she attend her graduation ceremony next month.

    ...Runkles told Breitbart News that the school treated her differently from other students who broke aspects of the Student Pledge. "We sign a student code at the beginning of each school year that we'll refrain from drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and pre-marital sex, stuff like that. And other kids at my school have been caught drunk, defacing public property, and other things like that, but they've never suffered a punishment as severe as mine.... I decided I wanted to confess what I did and ask for forgiveness from my school, but the other kids who had broken other rules – even when they were caught – they still lied about what they had done. It just seems unfair. I tried to make it right, but was still shot down."

    ...The New York Times reports that Runkles' father Scott sat on the school's board when he first lerned his daughter became pregnant (though he recused himself from discussions specifically concerning his daughter).

    But the school's treatment of Maddi made her father angry enough to quit the board — not because she was punished, but over how. "Typically, when somebody breaks a rule, you punish them at the time they break the rule. That way, the punishment is behind them and they're moving forward with a clean slate," he told the Times. "With Maddi, her punishment was set four months out. It's ruined her senior year."

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    She comes across entitled like many young people today and if she was so smart why did she get pregnant.

    Just because other students weren't punished is irrelevant. Stop making waves and show some humility instead of using the secular world to whine

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    Quote Originally Posted by KaySharpe View Post
    I am 99.9% sure that the news article I read (different from the one posted here) said that the young man is not a student there.
    I was speaking generally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    This is actually an interesting point. Do men who impregnate the women also not get to walk? Or, just the person with the visible belly? While I have no problem at all with asking an unmarried, pregnant student to honor the rules, if this rule doesn't apply to the "father" as well then it's not about preserving honor and everything to do with "how things look," and I'm not cool with that.
    I agree. It seems to be a "male" discriminatory practice. I recall when the woman in John 8:3, was caught in adultery, Nothing was said of the man. Maybe because men were allowed more than one wife, and women were only allowed one husband.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    She comes across entitled like many young people today and if she was so smart why did she get pregnant.

    Just because other students weren't punished is irrelevant. Stop making waves and show some humility instead of using the secular world to whine
    And her father's not making it any better. Instead of complaining, maybe he needs to examine himself. And he's setting a bad example by publicly making any statement at all. The world don't need to be privy to their private affairs. I'm beginning to understand why she sought solace in the arms (and bed) of that young man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan View Post
    I was speaking generally.
    We can only guess but under these circumstances I would say the school would hold them both to the same standard...she refused to acknowledge the father and said he was not a student.....she may be protecting him or that may be true...

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