A transgender student on the opposite side caused the Vermont Christian school to pull out of a playoff game, and now the school is suing the state of Vermont for denying it access to state tournaments and a state tuition programme.
Because of the transgender player’s alleged threat to “the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” Mid Vermont Christian School of Quechee decided to forfeit the game on February 21.
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In March, Mid Vermont Christian was disqualified from future competitions due to a violation of the executive council of the Vermont Principals’ Association, which oversees school sports and activities. The council’s principles on race, gender, and disability awareness were also broken, according to the ruling.
Mid Vermont Christian School based in White River Junction. (Google Maps)Google MapsThe school said in a federal complaint filed in Burlington on Tuesday that it was discriminated against as a religious school by the Vermont Agency of Education for not designating it as an authorised independent school.Christian school
Independent schools are required by a different body, the Vermont State Board of Education, to publish on their websites, submit to the board a statement of nondiscrimination compliant with the state’s fair employment and public accommodations laws, and submit a signed guarantee from the school’s head attesting to the compliance with the public accommodation law.Christian school
A school that receives disapproval is unable to take part in Vermont’s town tuition programme, which covers the cost of sending kids from underserved towns to authorised private schools or other public schools. For an independent school to allow its pupils to enrol in college courses under a state programme, approval is further required.
According to the complaint, “Mid Vermont Christian and its students are being irreparably harmed” by being barred from the programmes and middle and high school athletics.
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The school said in a federal complaint filed in Burlington on Tuesday that it was discriminated against as a religious school by the Vermont Agency of Education for not designating it as an authorised independent school.Christian school
Independent schools are required by a different body, the Vermont State Board of Education, to publish on their websites, submit to the board a statement of nondiscrimination compliant with the state’s fair employment and public accommodations laws, and submit a signed guarantee from the school’s head attesting to the compliance with the public accommodation law.Christian school
A school that receives disapproval is unable to take part in Vermont’s town tuition programme, which covers the cost of sending kids from underserved towns to authorised private schools or other public schools. For an independent school to allow its pupils to enrol in college courses under a state programme, approval is further required.
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According to the complaint, “Mid Vermont Christian and its students are being irreparably harmed” by being barred from the programmes and middle and high school athletics.
When contacted by phone on Wednesday, a representative for the state Agency of Education refused to comment. In an email, the executive director of the Vermont Principals’ Association said that the group had not seen the case and was not now in a position to comment.
In a another instance, last year the Agency of Education and a number of school districts agreed to pay five families’ tuition and legal expenses in order to resolve two cases contesting the state’s policy of not subsidising pupils to attend religious schools in communities without a public school.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision that Maine schools cannot exclude religious schools from participating in a programme that provides tuition assistance for private education, the parties to the litigation decided to drop their cases.
In a Montana case in 2020, a split U.S. Supreme Court said that states may not exclude religious schools from programmes that divert public funds to private education. source
