Wintertime:
The strategy is excellent. I approach it from a slightly different perspective in that I think it’s ultimately the parents, not the church, who are responsible for educating children.
A large part of the problem we see with government schools is that parents are too quick to want to turn the work of raising their children over to surrogates. There is a real danger in my view of setting up a church based alternative that allows parents to eagerly pass their responsibility on to a third party. Obviously I would prefer that to the status quo, but over time I expect you’re going to find the same problems cropping up as we have in the government schools.
You simply can’t get around the basic responsibility that parents have to raise and educate their own children. Churches can facilitate that, but ultimately the responsibility and rewards accrue to the parents.
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Very important point! ( I suppose my Prussian-model Catholic schooling is showing.) :-)
By the way, I wrote a vanity piece on this topic. It hasn’t been pinged on the public school list yet. You might find it interesting:
“Christian Teachers it is Time to Quit Your Job! ( All government schools are Anti-Christian)” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941937/posts