The Southern Baptist Academy Blog

I came across a saddening article today in the BP News. Tucked away amongst articles that some would consider to be more relevant, the homeschooling movement suffered a terrific blow in paragraph three.

“Addressing the decision not to consider the resolution, John Sullivan said while he serves as executive director–treasurer of the Florida Baptist Convention, “I would never lead our staff or the state board of missions to develop an exit strategy from the public schools.”

With no offense to my brothers and sisters in Christ who are currently employed by the public school system, there will come a time when Southern Baptist leaders will realize that the public school has gone too far.

Hopefully that time will come sooner rather than later. Church leaders need to understand that today’s public school is not the halcyon place they remember in their youth. It cannot be reformed, it is too far gone. Attempting to redeem the public school would not be like redeeming the Republican party for Christ. It would not even be like redeeming the Democratic party for Christ. In truth, it would be analagous to a vain attempt at reforming the German Nazi party into a bunch of Bible-thumping evangelicals.

Now, I’m not saying that public school administrators and teachers are Nazis. Most of them are good people. Many of them are Christians. All I’m saying is that the system is too corrupt, too rooted in humanist thought, and too closely tied to secular forces who would rather die than give up control of the minds of our youth. I’m merely drawing a similarity between the chances we have at reform.