Still suspended after attending prom

Administrators at Heritage Christian School in Findlay are still standing by their decision of suspending 17-year-old senior Tyler Frost, who attended his girlfriend's prom Saturday evening at Findlay High School.

[JOEL BECK]

AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS A SCARCITY OF MUSIC PLAYED IN THE CONCERT HALLS THAT WAS WRITTEN BY FUNDAMENTALISTS, PENTACOSTALS, AND BAPTISTS. THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT AT THIS HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL MUST THEREFORE TURN FOR INSTRUCTION TO MUSIC WRITTEN IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIENNA AND NORTHER ITALY, PREDOMINATELY BY (GASP! SHOCK!)
ROMAN CATHOLICS SUCH AS HAYDN, MOZART, AND BEETHOVEN. DON'T THESE GOOD BAPTISTS UNDERSTAND THAT BY STUDYING SUCH MUSIC, THEY ARE SENDING A
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO SUCH OF THEIR CHARGES AS ARE
MUSICALLY TALENTED THAT IT'S OK TO SACRIFICE YOUR
FIRSTBORN TO BAAL, CHEMOSH, OR MOLOCH, OR THE IDOL
OF THEIR CHOOSING?
AND WHAT ABOUT THESE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX COMPOSERS SUCH AS RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, GLINKA, ET AL?
IT'S TRUE THAT THEY ARRIVED ON THE MUSICAL REPITOIRE ABOUT A CENTURY LATER, BUT IS NOT THERE
MUSIC ALSO A SUBLIMINAL ATTACK ON FUNDAMENTALIST
PROTESTANTISM? IT'S HIGH TIME THESE "AGREEMENTS"
THAT STUDENTS SIGN TOOK COGNIZANCE OF THAT THREAT.
THE OTHER MATTER IS THE FINALITY OF GETTING A SHEEPSKIN FROM HERITAGE. OUGHT NOT THE RETAINING OF IT AFTER GRADUATION AND THE TRANSFER OF WHATEVER CREDITS AN ACCREDITED SECULAR COLLEGE WILL ACCEPT BE CONTINGENT UPON HOW A PERSON BEHAVES IN THE SUMMER MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION?
IF YOU'RE GOING TO OWN SOMEONE BODY AND SOUL, WHY
STOP WITH THE DAY HE GRADUATES, AND BIDS A SAD FAREWELL TO ALL THESE RULES?

[JOEL BECK]

JOEL BECK wrote:

AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS A SCARCITY OF MUSIC PLAYED IN THE CONCERT HALLS THAT WAS WRITTEN BY FUNDAMENTALISTS, PENTACOSTALS, AND BAPTISTS. THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT AT THIS HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL MUST THEREFORE TURN FOR INSTRUCTION TO MUSIC WRITTEN IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIENNA AND NORTHER ITALY, PREDOMINATELY BY (GASP! SHOCK!)
ROMAN CATHOLICS SUCH AS HAYDN, MOZART, AND BEETHOVEN. DON'T THESE GOOD BAPTISTS UNDERSTAND THAT BY STUDYING SUCH MUSIC, THEY ARE SENDING A
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO SUCH OF THEIR CHARGES AS ARE
MUSICALLY TALENTED THAT IT'S OK TO SACRIFICE YOUR
FIRSTBORN TO BAAL, CHEMOSH, OR MOLOCH, OR THE IDOL
OF THEIR CHOOSING?
AND WHAT ABOUT THESE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX COMPOSERS SUCH AS RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, GLINKA, ET AL?
IT'S TRUE THAT THEY ARRIVED ON THE MUSICAL REPITOIRE ABOUT A CENTURY LATER, BUT IS NOT THERE
MUSIC ALSO A SUBLIMINAL ATTACK ON FUNDAMENTALIST
PROTESTANTISM? IT'S HIGH TIME THESE "AGREEMENTS"
THAT STUDENTS SIGN TOOK COGNIZANCE OF THAT THREAT.
THE OTHER MATTER IS THE FINALITY OF GETTING A SHEEPSKIN FROM HERITAGE. OUGHT NOT THE RETAINING OF IT AFTER GRADUATION AND THE TRANSFER OF WHATEVER CREDITS AN ACCREDITED SECULAR COLLEGE WILL ACCEPT BE CONTINGENT UPON HOW A PERSON BEHAVES IN THE SUMMER MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION?
IF YOU'RE GOING TO OWN SOMEONE BODY AND SOUL, WHY
STOP WITH THE DAY HE GRADUATES, AND BIDS A SAD FAREWELL TO ALL THESE RULES?

If there is one world-historical figure that a young man in Tyler's place would imitate, it would
be Niccolo Macchiavelli. As I pointed out on other blogsites, his strategy of a frontal attack was wrong. As I understand the facts, he went to
a dance about two weeks before he was to graduate.
He could have waited until he had his diploma firmly in hand, and then done his unspeakable
wickedness with no worry of any reprisals from his
alma mater.
All this teaches the other Taylors out there is that the way to get around foolish rules is either to outwait them, or to employ hypocrisy,
deceit, and cunning while the principal still has
the leverage of granting or withholding the sheepskin.