Educating Baptists
Southern Baptists are looking to depart en masse from public schools:
A committee at the Southern Baptists’ annual gathering was scheduled to report Wednesday on a resolution that would urge the denomination to form a strategy for removing Southern Baptist children from public schools in favor of home schooling or education at private schools. …“We are commanded biblically to train our children in the nurture of the Lord,” said Roger Moran of Troy, Mo., who sits on the executive committee and offered the proposal with Texas author Bruce Shortt. “The public schools are no longer allowed … to even acknowledge the God of the Bible.”
One can hardly blame them, given the current situation in our schools:
Brittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb’s microphone. She didn’t tell a dirty joke. She didn’t curse. She didn’t insult her classmates or her teachers. Brittany McComb committed the egregious sin of attempting to thank God and Jesus. “I went through four years of school at Foothill and they taught me logic and they taught me freedom of speech,” McComb stated. “God’s the biggest part of my life. Just like other valedictorians thank their parents, I wanted to thank my lord and savior.”
Regarding the McComb story, I’d like to bring up the comments of by myself and others on the subject at Claw Marks.
I won’t waste your space by repeating myself here, other than to say I think the Townhall account of the situation is grossly misrepresenting what occured.
A part that’s always confused me is that they behave as if the public schools are the only place where kids get educated. I learned reading, math, and science in public schools, and for at least ten years, I took catechism classes about God and the Bible at my Catholic Church. I went to public schools and I learned about God. Except that I learned about God in a way consistent with my parents’ faith, rather than in a way consistent with the majority of people in my school district.