Report: Woodstock School That Bans Homosexuality Receives State Dollars

Schools that "exclude, condemn, and demonize students for who they are and who they accept in their lives" should not receive public funds, according to a report from an Atlanta education policy group.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Patch has reached out to Cherokee Christian Schools and is waiting to hear back from the administration.  Some scholarship money generated through a Georgia tax credit program has been used at religious schools that ban gay, lesbian and bisexual students, according to a report released late last month. One school in the report from the Southern Education Foundation, an Atlanta education policy group, is in Woodstock. At Cherokee Christian Schools, the Parent/Student Handbook for the 2012-13 school year states:  "In accordance with the Statement of Faith and in recognition of Biblical principles, no “immoral act” or “identifying statements” concerning fornication, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, or …

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