Florida Catholic School Being Sued $1.35 Million By Outraged Parents After School Goes ‘Woke’

Anthony and Barbara Scarpo have children that attend the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, Florida with a pledge of $1.35 million for their daughters’ tuition, and are suing the school after the school’s alleged breach of contract.

According to the lawsuit, the Catholic school is breaching contract by forgoing the Catholic education after embracing the ‘woke’ culture in today’s society and making it a point for students to ‘check their white privilege.’

According to the NY Post –

now the parents want their money back — including tuition paid for their two daughters — in outrage at how the school turned its back on Catholicism to go “woke,” their 13-count, 45-page lawsuit claims.

I think it’s important to note that the tuition is $22,450 a year for high school students.

Let’s be honest, it’s probably just chump change to the school… BUT IT’S ABOUT THE PRINCIPLE.

I’d give to the cause but I’m afraid I wouldn’t even make a dent. It would be like a needlepoint scratch in the dent. It’s the thought that counts.

The Scarpos claim 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.

I don’t know very much about Catholicism but I’m certain that pregnancy termination doesn’t align with the belief system. They don’t believe in using birth control… but yeah, go ahead and kill your unborn. Like, what?

Even just in that point alone, I understand why the Scarpo family is suing for fraud and breach of contract.

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.

As a result, the couple is seeking to rescind the $1.35 million pledge, and get back the $240,000 cash gift they had already paid.

They also want the tuition they paid for their daughters — which was not detailed — to be paid to Catholic charities, and for their name to be removed from the auditorium and “any public displays or media.”

Of course the school’s legal team is stating that the Scarpo family is merely pulling a publicity stunt and that their claims are unfounded.

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.”

Considering that the Scarpo family donated enough money to the school to have the auditorium named after them, called the “Scarpo Family Theatre”… I find it hard to believe that they’re doing this for publicity.

Have fun losing one of your biggest financial donors all because you want to support chicks with d!cks and killing unborn babies.