Suit was filed in a Florida state trial court last month by the parents of two Catholic school students who were the joint chairs of the school's $9 million capital campaign. They had personally pledged over $1.35 million to the campaign and paid a portion of that pledge. They now seek to have the court declare the pledge null and void, and order return to them of pledged amounts already paid, as well as tuition paid for their daughters. The complaint (full text) in Scarpo v. Academy of the Holy Names of Florida, Inc., (FL Cir. Ct., filed 6/26/2021), alleges in part:
[I]n Defendants' zeal to embrace the politically correct, "woke" culture currently in vogue, the Defendants breached Defendants' promises to provide Plaintiffs minor children with a Cahtolic [sic.] Education in return for Plaintiffs paying tuition and fund-raising for the Academy of the Holy Names....
[T]he Academy lost its way, distancing itself from mainstream Catholicism, and 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 and mainstream Catholicism and Catholic Catechism were relegated to what was billed as an unfortunate past deserving of its Students guilt for not having been "woke" sooner.
Friendly Atheist blog reports on the case, as does AP.
