The Virginian Pilot Wants Your Kids in Government Schools

An editorial in the Pilot titled, “The public education of southern Baptists” begins by asserting that “there are plenty of valid reasons why individual parents my choose to educate their children at home or in private schools.” And then never mentions that line of thought again.

The editor is apparently terrified that the second largest denomination in the country (after Catholics) would urge its members to withdraw its children from public schools.

As well he (or she) should. Public schools are notorious for turning out graduates who cannot read their diplomas. Even the “better” public schools graduates are virtually illiterate in history, geography or basic science. Math problems are done on calculators.

On top of this, what bothers Baptists – and many other Christians – is that public schools now teach values that are inimical to Christian values. Historical Christian Holidays like Christmas have been re-named to remove their religious roots. Public schools actively promote sexual practices which most Christians view as sin and many people – Christian or not – consider perversions.

So what reasons does the Virginian Pilot give to ask Baptists to stay? Well, they appeal – wait for it – Baptist’s PATRIOTISM! It’s patriotic to give your children to the government because that makes a commitment to “a pluralistic society.” And our children get an opportunity to “weight their values … against others;” an admission that Christian values and government school values are not compatible.

The writer asks, “Do the Baptists really want to deprive all other children of the opportunity to hear from their sons and daughters?” Apparently the editor has not heard how Christian students who have attempted to share their values with others have fared. One little girl who passed out pencils with “Jesus Loves You” was threatened with expulsion.

After admonishing Baptists parents that withdrawal from government schools will deprive those schools of the benefits of hearing from its children, we get the intellectually opposite concept when the writer says that “the schools are America’s mixing pot.” Well, which is it: are the schools a place for little Baptists to tell others their beliefs, or are the schools a place for little Baptists to learn to be little agnostics?

This, of course, from a newspaper so painfully politically correct that it everywhere and always celebrates multiculturalism; the very antithesis of the Melting Pot that the US was once thought to be.

I applaud the Southern Baptists and hope that this resolution passes in their upcoming convention. After all, isn’t multiculturalism a “Good Thing?” Can’t Baptists become part of the “Grand Mosaic” that the Left is always nattering on about? Why should Baptist children be ground down in to the undifferentiated goo of ill educated, over sexed graduates of government schools? Let’s “…DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN!”