Posted on 10/20/2006 1:24:53 PM PDT by achilles2000
If you like sexually transmitted diseases, shootings and high teen pregnancy rates, by all means, send your children to public schools. That's the word from a leader in the fast-growing movement within the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention for parents to pull their children from those schools in favor of homeschooling.
Pastor Wiley Drake
The program is called Exit Strategy and Pastor Wiley Drake, whose home state of California has done some things especially offensive to Christians this year, is a leading promoter.
In an interview with WND, he said that those problems and others are prevalent in public schools, and some Christian leaders even have said it could be considered child abuse just to register children in such a facility....
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
The problem with the SBC is that it has been joined at the hip with the government schools for generations. Today, the SBC is having a hard time with an issue that is simple theologically because it has been coopted by government school money and parents.
Schwarzenegger needs to be voted out! He's such a lib.
We started a small Christian school in our church 20 years ago. It's been very successful. It's a small church with people and a pastor who believed in Christian education. Now we're forming another Christian school near Utica which will be an 8 million dollar facility when built. It CAN be done but it takes people who really are committed to it. Our graduates have gone on to some good schools and they have good morals and values.
Soon to follow: "Muslim Pride Month" (for them) & "Dhimmi Month" (for you infidels)...
***Post this research, please. I'd like to see it.***
It's been in the news often for anyone who is so interested in the subject to have seen it. And asking for proof of something already so obvious is an old and tired ploy just to waste someone else's time.
Now, why in the heck are you here on this thread, if you're not interested enough to have heard or read the news? Go away and let God-loving people have a peaceful and fruitful discussion. Or would you rather that the public schools keep teaching our kids to be commies?
unspun: Lunatic, research demonstrates that homeschooled Christian children out test the stuffing out of national averages.
LF: Post this research, please. I'd like to see it.
unspun:
http://www.naturalfamilyhome.com/homeschooling-statistics.html
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp
http://www.scaihs.org/pdf/act%20scores.pdf
http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/ray1997/default.asp
http://www.ontariohomeschool.org/comparison.shtml
http://www.homeschoolfoundation.org/homeschooling/rudner1999/rudner5.asp
http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner1999/default.asp
http://www.csj.net/~mkwoods/good.htm
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.
***Schwarzenegger needs to be voted out! He's such a lib.***
Well, Mary, I'm no expert on Schwarzenegger, but he DID veto three bills that would have made the public schools even worse when it comes to indoctrinating our kids. I'm thankful to learn that about him, and a future dem gov. would probably sign them when they come up again.
I'm delighted to hear about your Christian schools, Mary. Good for you.
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.
www.badjocks.com will keep you..umm...abreast...of the antics you seek...
That is exactly right...and I wish the Catholics had not listened to the Vatican II promoters and kept their system intact. Many people don't know that the Catholic system in Chicago was larger than the government system in the 1950's. Would someone tell the Pope to get on this? ;-)
Well, of course, I was only referring to the needs of others....;-)
The indoctrination centers will not give up their control easily or freely.
The SBC is heading down the path to irrelevance
I don't know if I would go that far, it doesn't surprise me that the SBC is taking a stand on these kind of social ills. Remember the Disney boycott? The stand against public schools seems to be more rational than targeting Mickey Mouse.
i only keep the website handy to mention it to others, such as was the case with you. ;o)
The odd thing is that the SBC will loudly denounce sins the typical Southern Baptist doesn't commit, but it doesn't want to speak at all about the sins that they do commit. Disobedience in the education of their children is the best example of this.
They weren't attacking Mickey Mouse, they were attacking Eisner and his Homo minions, that turned Disney World periodically, into a cesspool.
If you aren't going to provide evidence, don't bother to respond.
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