Obama’s daughters attend a Quaker school...
RE: Obama’s daughters attend a Quaker school...
Yes, but how faithful are their teachers to the Bible?
“Quaker” today might mean as much nowadays as “Episcopalian” or “Anglican” or even Boy Scouts of America...
Ozero has zero experience with public schools...not as an elementary student, not as a high-schooler, not as a college student, and certainly not as a parent.
That's right! Thank you for reminding us of this. So do lots of other left-wing members of the Washington elite because the public schools are so bad in DC.
I would have more respect for Obama’s view if he would at least follow his own advice, and the precedent of Jimmy Carter, and enroll his daughters in public school. I have zero problem with him using private schools but he can't logically attack private schools while his own daughter goes to one.
66 posted on 6/20/2013 12:49:55 PM by Yehuda: “Wish some people here would give Jews the same benefit of the doubt.”
I do, Yehuda. With each of these three phrases ... evangelical Protestant, traditional Catholic, Orthodox Jew ... the modifier is important. (And yes, I am quite aware that there are Jewish people who are politically conservative but not as strictly observant as the Orthodox, much as there are politically conservative members of mainline Protestant denominations.)
For people who want to blame all Jews for liberal nonsense by secular Jews, they need to be consistent and blame all Roman Catholics for nonsense coming from Pelosi, Kerrey, and the Kennedys, and blame all Protestants for nonsense from the National Council of Churches and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
My guess is that the rapidly increasing assimilation of today's secular Jewish community in the United States, combined with aggressive Chabad and Modern Orthodox outreach, within a generation or two will transform Judaism much as the evangelical movement transformed the face of Protestantism between the 1930s and 1980s, with the liberals in control of dying institutions supported by large endowments and the conservatives in the driver's seat of the agenda outside those historic but hollowed-out institutions.
I am glad, though, to see that the Touro Synagogue has remained Orthodox over all these years despite a century and a half of liberalism in American Judaism. I wish I could say that about the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth, the early Anglican churches in Virginia, or most other historic Protestant congregations.
Most Quaker schools are far left of the public schools.
That’s only to keep them ‘safe’ from the public schools where violence reigns.