Grading the Week: Valor Christian falls well short of standard of excellence it purports to represent

If 1 defines excellence by trophies, banners and idiosyncratic accolades, Valor Christian High School is astir without adjacent successful the authorities of Colorado.

The backstage spiritual schoolhouse located successful Highlands Ranch has won much than 3 twelve CHSAA authorities titles since opening its doors 14 years ago.

Among its galore accomplished alumni: NFL All-Pro Christian McCaffrey, planetary women’s shot prima Janine Beckie (a caller Olympic golden medalist with Canada) and PGA Tour pro Wyndham Clark.

And yet, this week, Valor fell good abbreviated of the excellence it purports to represent aft volleyball manager Inoke Tonga revealed connected societal media that helium was pressured to resign his station due to the fact that helium is openly gay.

Valor Christian — F

How bash we cognize this is what apt happened?

Valor Christian administrators each but confirmed it by a) not explicitly denying the allegation, and b) providing statements that suggested this was simply the schoolhouse acting successful accordance with its halfway acceptable of values.

School officials confirmed to The Post’s Elizabeth Hernandez connected Monday greeting that they saw a Facebook station by Inoke that revealed “he whitethorn not enactment Valor’s beliefs pertaining to sexuality and marriage.”

And since Valor Christian staff, module and unpaid leaders are required to hold with and uphold those beliefs successful their regular lives successful bid to beryllium portion of the schoolhouse community, past it stands to crushed that’s wherefore Tonga was pushed to resign.

Or, arsenic Valor administrators enactment it to The Post: After gathering with Inoke, the manager told them helium does not enactment Valor’s beliefs and stepped down from his position.

We’ll enactment it different way: When enactment successful the intolerable concern of being asked to contradict who helium is (a cheery man), Inoke refused and stepped distant from a presumption helium expressed to love.

As a backstage spiritual institution, ineligible precedent says Valor is wrong its close to specify what is expected from its community. But it should beryllium noted that determination is zero notation of sexuality oregon matrimony successful the “Culture Document” posted to Valor Christian’s website — a 24-page declaration that defines the school’s ethics.

There is plentifulness of speech astir “leadership,” “character” and “integrity.”

Which leaves the Grading the Week unit to wonder: Just wherever were those values this week? (Or erstwhile the schoolhouse allegedly did the aforesaid happening with erstwhile girls lacrosse manager Lauren Benner, a cheery woman, 2 years earlier.)

The lone enactment we could find was from the members of the pupil assemblage who walked retired successful protestation Tuesday.

“My work arsenic idiosyncratic called to emotion others arsenic the Lord does is to talk retired against bigotry and basal up,” 16-year-old Lucy Sarkissian, a Valor student, told The Post’s Hernandez.

The school’s response: Curiously sending retired a fleet of leafage blowers to the borderline of field astatine the aforesaid clip those students voiced their enactment for Tonga crossed the street.

Because seemingly enactment includes drowning retired opposing voices successful cartoonishly ineffective ways.

“Valor Christian High School embraces, loves and respects each students, families and different participants successful our community, careless of whether oregon not they hold with Valor’s beliefs,” Valor Christian’s connection this week read.

Embraces them truthful overmuch that they unit them to contradict their existent selves.

Loves them truthful overmuch that they garbage to perceive their concerns.

Respects them truthful overmuch that they archer them to leave.