"Will Baptists Abandon Public Schools?"

Thanks to Margaret for notice of this Cal Thomas article, Jun. 15, at the Gulfport-Biloxi Sun-Herald:

People of both political parties and many persuasions have been talking for decades about education reform. President Bush signed a huge new spending bill that is supposed to link funding to certain reforms so that no child will be left behind.

Now comes what could be the most radical and most successful education reform proposal ever made. The Southern Baptist Convention — the nation's largest Protestant denomination with about 17 million members — is meeting this week in Indianapolis, and among the resolutions it is considering is one calling upon parents to withdraw their children from public schools and either educate them at home, or enroll them in private Christian academies....

Conservatives have worried more about changing decadent culture than in changing themselves and their own children. Millions of schoolchildren reared with morals, values, ethics and faith that are endangered in the government schools would do more to enrich and advance culture than all of the political movements combined.

So, Southern Baptists, show the way and perhaps many will follow. Stop waiting for the world's permission to fully exercise your faith and beliefs (which will never come) and start training up your children in the ways your God wants them to go. That can't be done in government schools, but it can in yours or in your homes. It's time to give the word "exodus" a new meaning.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 06/17/04 05:39:12 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.