Posted on 06/14/2006 10:16:04 AM PDT by TheDon
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention refused Wednesday to support a resolution urging the denomination to form a strategy for removing children from public schools in favor of home schooling or education at private schools.
The "exit strategy" proposal, offered by Roger Moran of Troy, Mo., and Texas author Bruce Shortt, came as many Southern Baptists are concerned about how classrooms are handling subjects such as homosexuality and "intelligent design."
But the SBC's resolutions committee instead called on members to "engage the culture of our public school systems" by exerting "godly influence," declining to put the proposal from Moran and Shortt before delegates to the SBC's annual meeting.
The committee instead forwarded a more moderate resolution titled "On Engaging the Direction of the Public School System," which was to be debated Wednesday evening at the final session of the denomination's annual meeting.
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Sounds like common sense reigned there at the SBC Convention.
Actually, they voted to keep their children in the gov't schools.
"Actually, they voted to keep their children in the gov't schools."
Yes. That's what I meant. They used some common sense. If you have children in those schools, you're more likely to pay attention to what is happening in them.
Public schools are not going away. The key is to change them, if they're deficient. If the American people are truly angry at what is going on in the schools, they have the power to change them.
Okay, let me get this straight.
You can't, as an adult, have a glass of wine, but you can send your kids to be schooled by tne NEA and be influenced by the "worldly" philosophy they push.
Hmmmm.
It appears that the resolution has failed...this time.
But the resolution was based upon impeccably done research in this book (also available on Amazon):
"The Harsh Truth about Public Schools" ---a reading must!
http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_the-harsh-truth-about-public-schools.htm
It occasionally does ;)
Unfortunately, parents are finding themselves increasingly frustrated with the lack of power they have in these so-called "public" schools. They are searching for some way of regaining that power, but with little success...
The real issue regarding public schools is the fact that they are no longer truly "public" schools. All policy is separate from the public, and the public truly has little or no influence regarding hiring, policy or curriculum. When I first started teaching, a community quite literally had their own school - and they determined how they wished their schools to teach. By the time I left the public school system, ten years later, communities had virtually no input into such matters.
Even teachers such as myself had NO control over what curriculums would be taught. I had always written my own curriculums in the beginning to meet my students' needs; but by the end, I was not only being discouraged from crafting my own curriculum, I was not even allowed to choose one. The school chose all things...
Once, communities hired teachers and the teachers taught the children. Now, people who don't even have children, people who don't even like children are controlling our schools. NGOs, population control activists and social constructivists now control most "public" schools. Science and mathematics have given way to "global warming" and "fuzzy math"; social studies, literature and the arts have become little more than propaganda in many schools. The few truly public schools left are increasingly being pressured through litigation and intimidation to give up all power to those who know nothing about their children.
My daughter graduated from a great public school in 2003 - but during her senior year the powers that be decided the school no longer met their political needs. Despite protests from the parents, the fabulous faculty was dismantled from the inside out, then the next year the school torn down to make way for a more "fair" and "modern" school. (And that school may never be built, since the land upon which it sits is now prime real estate.)
I still teach; I started my own public school, designed to meet my student's - my 7 yr old son's - needs. It's called "Our Homeschool". Science and math, here we come! And I thank God I live in a state where I still have access to good "public" schools, even if the only student I serve it my own child...
Actually, not everyone is angry about it. Many people are quite happy about the values that are taught in gov't schools. For those who are not, they must move on to other options. Throwing our children into the cesspool of gov't schools is a crime against our children.
Naw, just looks like some of you allies seem to have infiltrated the SBC
He who pays the piper -- calls the tune.
If I sit down at Caesar's table, I have forfeited the right to complain about the menu. What he feeds me, I must swallow.
We do not pay for public schools. Caesar does -- using money extracted from us by force and intimidation. When the gun intervenes between funding source and destination, loyalty is severed. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." We the people don't pay for public schools, and don't control public schools -- therefore, it makes better sense to train our children through environments we pay for, and control.
Unfortunately, a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise. Hence, the general acceptance of public schools. We are paid off with our fellow citizens' money to ensure our compliance and silence.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
The ban, part of a larger anti-alcohol resolution that was easily approved by delegates, was proposed by Jim Richards, executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. While stopping short of officially preventing drinkers from serving, it "urges" that no one be elected or appointed to SBC offices if they are "a user of alcohol."
"Use of alcohol as a beverage can and does impede the message of Jesus Christ" that Southern Baptists are trying to spread, Richards said.
The government schools are hopelessly broken. Why would I want my kids exposed to type of nonsense the government schools throw at them? Why should I condemn my children to a poor education and even poorer social situation so that I can change the schools?
My wife and I have recently decided to home school.
Nice post...........
We are losing and they are winning largely because we have unwise, weak leaders. Show me where adults are winning through engagement and then maybe I'll consider a plan for the kids to do the same. We're just lazy, busy entertaining ourselves to death while the gosple gets watered down and we reflect the world far more than the Lord Jesus. We are at this point because of our own failures.
ROFLOL!!!
My point exactly!!! Sending children to be a "godly influence" into the cesspools that are the public schools.
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