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Baptist Convention Takes a Strong Stand for Children…

Baptist Convention Takes a Strong Stand for Children…
After years of debate, conflict, and evaluation, the Southern Baptist Convention is encouraging parents to keep their children out of “government-run” schools. Initially, efforts by members of the Convention to encourage Christians to remove their children from public schools and enroll them in Christian schools were met with intense opposition. However, Dr Morris H. Chapman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, has recently renewed efforts to lay the foundation for an “exit strategy” for Christians to leave public education. 
Citing the increase in the amount of anti-Christian teaching within government schools as a primary motivation, Dr. Chapman is calling for greater expansion of Christian primary and secondary schools. He notes that “Kingdom schools” would be a welcomed alternative in addressing the societal chaos, which includes broken families and failing students, increased dropout rates and “alarming rates of crime, sexually transmitted diseases and out-of-wedlock births,” that too many communities face.
In an effort to expand Christian education, Dr. Chapman calls on every local Southern Baptist Association to create new schools. While he states that the focus of this endeavor should not be to abandon public schools, he explains the enormity of the need for children “…to be fortified with strong biblical precepts as well as history, grammar, literature, civics, math and science.” Read more
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