Another Boycott?
Friday, October 20th, 2006By Mimi Rothschild
The Southern Baptists are at it again. One has to admire their tenacity. This time it’s not a company or a product, but the public school system. Calling for the most socially disriptive boycott of all time, Pastor Wiley Drake called for an “Exit Strategy.”
The Southern Baptists, and Christians in general, have long bemoaned the state of our public school system, but no one has called for this kind of mass exodus. If Southern Baptists alone were to heed Drake’s call, it could easily double or triple the already burgeoning homeschool community.
Wiley is calling for existing churches to provide resources so that needy families can homeschool as well. This will help to soften the economic blow that this will inevitably be taken by schools in low-income areas. The Southern Baptist Church, the largest Protestant Christian community in America, may just be the only group to pull something like this off. With their existing resources, they could develop athletic networks, international study programs, and enough extra-curricular programs to put the ritziest public schools to shame.
A move of this scale will undoubtedly cripple the public school system.
I will be diligently praying for this movement. It’s about time that God’s people stood up for themselves, realizing that we don’t have to take it anymore. There is an alternative. Some of these leaders are even calling out the parents who send their kids to public school, going so far as to call it “child abuse.” It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.