Monday, February 06, 2023

DECISIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

By Bob Walsh

 


The Urban Christian Academy in Kansas City, MO. has been around for nine years.  In each of those nine years it added another grade in the marginal neighborhood in which it is located.  The school provided a tuition free K-8 education to 100 children this year.  This is also it's last year.

This past winter Kallie Callaway-George, the executive director and co-founder of the school, made a decision.  She asserts the school has always been supportive of the LGBTQ community in a quite, low-profile way.  She decided to move that support into a more public arena.  In the six months after doing so the financial support for the school dropped 42%.  It is now, at the end of 2022, only 20% of its previous level.  In December of 2021 the school raised $334,000.  In December of 2022 the school raised $14,800. 

The school is closing down at the end of May.  

1 comment:

Trey said...

Not everyone has the same opinion or beliefs. Live your dream. If you can afford it.