You guys have the resources, the internal discipline, and the ferocious commitment to family it would take to do what the Baptists are only talking about doing -- pull the plug on public schools! At this point, the only demographics that match you folks' love of children are traditional Catholics and home-schooling Protestants.
Now that you guys have established a reputation as landmarks in mainstream American culture, you don't need to keep participating in public education in order to maintain that facade. Go for it! Rescue your children from the unitarian socialists! Equip your families to home school, set up private schools in every ward and stake, and this Calvinist will pray for your success! (I'll also be praying for your conversion, as you do for mine, but that's another subject. We agree on the value of children.)
Great observations, RJR_fan. This article is a challenge to committed parents of every faith. Are we really living what we believe?
I call the public school system the anti-Christian school system. Took my kids out of it years ago. Homeschooling is not a practical option for us, but we were able to enroll them in a Catholic school. Lots of other LDS kids go there too.
There isn’t enough of us up here where I am to make a private school of our own, but I can’t help looking at our church with all it’s classrooms that sits so empty during school hours....