By Jessica Mazzola and Marisa Iati | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on February 02, 2017 at 11:33 AM, updated February 02, 2017 at 5:08 PM
KENILWORTH — A Catholic school that expelled a seventh-grade student whose family sued in an attempt to get her a spot on the boys basketball team was acting in accordance with school policy, officials with the Archdiocese of Newark said Thursday.
“I am just in total shock right now,” said Scott Phillips, who received a letter Wednesday saying that his two daughters, Sydney and Kaitlyn, were no longer welcome at St. Theresa’s School in Kenilworth.
The possibility of the girls getting thrown out,” never even crossed my mind. It’s over joining a basketball team,” he said. “I am so disappointed.”
Jim Goodness, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, said Sydney’s parents signed an acknowledgement in August of the school’s policy, which clearly states that legal action against the school will result in students’ expulsion.
sad that you have to sign a paper not to sue the school…. even sadder is that you get expelled
Good for the Archdiocese…..
Wonder why these schools are closing.
“Wonder why these schools are closing.”
No.
They are closing because of decreasing enrollment due to tuition increases and improvements in the public school system.
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Father is a Captain in the Kenilworth Police Department. Mother is a Superior Court Judge. Struggling scholls have no money for lawyers.
But the church has money to expand Archbishop Myer’s palatial retirement home…