The number of parents that decided to withdraw their children from school due to adopted a leftist view has been increasing recently. And this latest one is quite unusual.
A wealthy Florida parent is now suing their daughter’s exclusive Catholic school for breach of contract and accusing it of abandoning a Catholic education in favor of going “woke” and forcing kids to “check their white privilege.” The said parents also pledged $1.35 million to the catholic school.
The school even named its auditorium “Scarpo Family Theatre” after their huge pledge in 2017, saying they were helping it raise $9 million in total according to Anthony and Barbara Scarpo.
Years after, the parents are now requesting their money back, including the tuition paid for their two daughters — in outrage at how the school turned its back on Catholicism to go “woke,” their 13-count, the 45-page lawsuit claims.
According to the Scarpos, they were betrayed by the school suddenly “embracing the new, politically correct, divisive and ‘woke’ culture where gender identity, human sexuality, and pregnancy termination among other ‘hot-button issues,’ took center stage,” the lawsuit said.
The school “insidiously indoctrinated its students, requiring that they ‘check their white privilege’ and feel sufficiently guilty merely because of their skin color,” the lawsuit said.
Here’s an excerpt from New York Post:
Instead of the focus on teaching, Catholicism was “billed as an unfortunate past deserving of its students’ guilt for not having been ‘woke’ sooner,” the documents allege.
The parents — who import diamonds and jewelry and own a trust fund company — are also seeking to bar the school from claiming it offers a Catholic education.
The school has denied the claims — with a lawyer writing to the Scarpos’ legal team to call the lawsuit a publicity stunt, the Tampa Bay Times said.
“We can discern no motivation behind the lawsuit other than attention-seeking by your clients, and a desire by you to build a brand,” lawyer Gregory Hearing wrote, threatening a countersuit to get the full pledge.
Emily Wise, a school spokeswoman, told the Florida paper in an email that the claims are “false and unsubstantiated.”
“We will continue to pray for all parties involved, and, if necessary, we are prepared to defend ourselves in court,” Wise said.
Sources: 100 Percent Fed Up, New York Post