Good, good.
Lib controlled schools are the root of the comie/leftie problem ..
"If you like sexually transmitted diseases, shootings and high teen pregnancy rates, by all means, send your children to public schools."
Gee, it's so not like the Baptists to use fear and hyperbole to direct the actions of their congregations!
In Philadelphia, the schools now have a "Gay History Month".
The more who pull themselves from the indoctrination centes the weaker will be the influence of the indoctrinators.
It's a real shame that the "spirit of Vatican 2" led to the closings of so many parochial schools.
But I think we are reaching the point where a majority of voters may be willing to say that they should not have to pay taxes to support swinishly wasteful and badly run public schools AND pay to educate their children privately.
Not to mention the fact that in the cities numerous blacks and others attend parochial schools on scholarship even though they are not Catholic.
The whole education business needs to be reinvented. If the Baptists pull out, that will be a major step toward revaluating the entire system.
With a congregation that big, they ought to be able to start up some sedcular schools of their own. Homeschooling is actually pretty demanding. Not that many people can handle it.
Schwarzenegger needs to be voted out! He's such a lib.
Not a Baptist, but my gratuitous oponion is that if they are really serious they should begin to establish an autonomous educational system akin to the Catholic schools. I have great respect for the numerous home schoolers I know, but I also know that not all parents are the right people to enact this option.
Individual home schooling for the first time can be a life-style changing enterprise for many families, particularly if both parents are working before they start home schooling.
I would suggest to the Baptists that, before making a big push for the exits, they study some of the practical issues their families will have and study some practical solutions for people.
I would encourage larger Baptist congregations to first look at starting a private group school for the families in the congregation.
For smaller congregations:
I would encourage Baptist parents who live less than ten minutes away from each other to share the home schooling practical requirements with each other. In family groups of two or more households it would provide more possibilities for part-time employment for some parents who would not have that opportunity, if incurring all the home schooling duties as a single household. It would engage the diversity of expertise available from different parents in the group. It would also provide an element of socialization that critics cite as one of the missing attriubutes of single household home schooling.
Even where congregations cannot afford to help run private schools, the socialization part is an area where the congregations can help makeup for the missing non-academic group activities of public schools. Groups of congregations, in existing, official or artificially arranged groups can open their facilities and engage their leaders in extending the kind and time of "youth" activities they support. They can start various youth clubs and teams and the clubs and teams can meet individually and with the clubs and teams from other congregations in the group. The meetings, or events could even move from one congregation in the group to another; sharing the scheduling and supervision burden between them.
In the area of the curriculum, the Baptist's national offices should help ($$$ and research) Baptist parents find proper text books, including, but not limited to, textbooks that teach AMERICAN history and not the leftist, white-guilt, every-culture-but-ours-is-great, kill-the-Judeo-Christian-contributions history that is taught in many public schools today. They could try to establish a rotating group of prominent, well known Conservative scholars as a text book editorial board (maybe they have to pay them), from which text book recommendations could be made.
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Me like, but I don't got no chilrun to send! What to do?
It's this kind of nutty rhetoric that makes all Fundamentalist Christians look like the Taliban.
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how about attention homeschoolers:
Do you really think a Democrat Party majority, which is proped up by the NEA and the FTA is going to just let people NOT go to public school?
In germany they are putting home school parents in Jail.
If Baptists want to home school they had better know where their best chance of independence lies.
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God bless Pastor Drake and may my fellow Catholics follow his Baptist and Christian lead.
While I don't agree with the Baptists on much, they definately got this one right. You don't hand your kids over to the government for 7 to 8 hours a day 9 months a year, filled in various ways with sodomites, athiests and activists.
You won't trust them with your health care, but you will willingly give them your kids for most of the day? Insanity.
BTT