Almost they persuadeth me (Southern Baptists and Government Schools)

TexanOnline The Southern Baptist Texan ^ | June 12, 2007 | Gary Ledbetter

[achilles2000]

...When I think of the Exodus story I can’t help but see Charlton Heston leading a cast of thousands out of a movie-set Egypt. One day there are millions of the Hebrew children in Egypt and a few days later, not one. The removal of Christian families from public schools will not be that way.

Think instead of an oppressed minority leaving a repressive political regime. A few get out early, others need a more urgent threat, others escape through some kind of underground rescue movement, dogs baying in the background. Some will stay too long. I’m convinced that we’ll leave, not as a denomination or as churches or even as a faith, but as refugees whose alarms go off according to different sensitivities. Eventually we’ll all leave public education or wish we had.

[achilles2000]

Three years ago the SBC didn't want to discuss whether we should be educating our children in government schools. The linked editorial is from a special edition of the newspaper of the Southern Baptist state convention (SBTC) hosting this year's Southern Baptist Annual Meeting. The newspaper was distributed to the messengers and their guests at this year's Annual Meeting.

Nothing written by an employee of an institutional Southern Baptist publication has ever dealt so bluntly with this subject. This may be the beginning of the handwriting on the wall for the government school's "Belshazzar's Feast".

[Asclepius]

Think instead of an oppressed minority leaving a repressive political regime.

Indeed. Lots of us no longer feel welcome here. What happened?

[achilles2000]

FYI

[TexGuy]

Baptist Ping!

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I for one have a hard time adopting the “I’m going to take my ball and go home” mentality. I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights . . . rather than simply give into the leftist education bureaucrats!

[edcoil]

Indeed. Lots of us no longer feel welcome here. What “happened?”

Government grew to care only about its own self interests and allows the minority to control the majority.

[Baladas]

Well, public schools are further degenerating, this mass exodus has been going on for years.

Public schools are now what’s considered a substandard education, the only good ones are in wealthy suburbs.

[achilles2000]

Would you fight tooth and nail for collective agriculture? The model is the mistake.

[Oberon]

I for one have a hard time adopting the “I’m going to take my ball and go home” mentality. I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights.

We've already done that in my house...by making sure the public schools never got their mitts on my kids in the first place.

[Xenalyte]

Almost they persuadeth me (Southern Baptists and Government Schools)

"They" cannot "persuadeth." That's a single verb form, applicable to "he" or "she."

"They persuade" is correct, archaic or no.

[Graybeard58]

I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights . . . rather than simply give into the leftist education bureaucrats!

I admire your attitude but think you are pissing against the wind.

[TalonDJ]

I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights

Nice idea, but my children will not be on that battlefield while that is going on. I prefer to raise them the way I see fit rather than inject them into a situation that I think is far from that and then try to warp it to match what 'I see fit'. Besides, by now I am such a believer in homeschool as a model for child rearing that even if the public schools reversed their decay to a state 20 or 40 years ago I still would not send my kids there. I see the problem as the decay of society and public schools are the vehicle by which that decay would get to my (future) kids. I don't see society changing that fast. I think I will have a better time changing it by keeping my kids insulated, raising them right, and then turning them lose on it to spread the effect.

[JenB]

That sounds like a lovely firm moral stand, but think what it means - leave my kids in a cesspool while I get a bucket and try to remove the crap, even as dump trucks are dropping off more, versus throwing a rope, hauling my kids out, and feeling very sorry for the ones who are still stuck in crap.

I see how parents can have that attitude but me and my house, we’ll homeschool.

[JenB]

But what about socialization?

[TalonDJ]

;-D I love you too honey.

[TChris]

I for one have a hard time adopting the “I’m going to take my ball and go home” mentality. I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights . . . rather than simply give into the leftist education bureaucrats!

I agree. Fix the schools; don't surrender them!

[achilles2000]

Not my title, but I believe it comes from the KJV.

[Greg F]

Otto: Don’t call me stupid.

Wendy Leach (Maria Aitken): Why on earth not?

Otto: Oh you English are so superior aren’t you? Well would you like to know where you would be without us, the old
U.S. of A to protect you? The smallest f’ing province in
the Russian empire. So don’t call me stupid lady.

Wendy: Well thank you for popping in and protecting us.

Otto: (as he leaves) Without us, you’d all be speaking German!

[georgiagirl_pam]

Are you serious or should you have a sarcasm tag? :)
Pam

[achilles2000]

BTW, I agree that you are right on the lack of subject/verb agreement.