Baptists to weigh public-school exit plan

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by civman2000

Hehehe...not even close. I don't have much time so I can't find better numbers, but...

Total Religious Population: 5,804,120,000

Christians (total): 1,955,229,000 (33.7%)

Roman Catholics: 981,465,000 (16.9%)
Protestants : 404,020,000 (7.0%)
Orthodox: 218,350,000 (3.8%)
Anglicans: 69,136,000 (1.2%)
Other Christians; 282,258,000 (4.9%)

http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutchr...mographics.htm

I think he's talking about the United States, civman.

The problem with the Baptists withdrawing their kids from the public schools is that in some southern states that might be enough to shut the school systems down. If the majority of the population in a city or county withdraw their kids from public school they're also going to elect local politicians who reflect their views. This isn't the first time that Southern Baptists have railed against the public schools. Back in the 1960s they railed against godless integration. They shut down several school systems in Virginia. One county held out for seven years. If these folks are serious it could happen again.

Oh BTW, Anglicans are Protestants. In fact I imagine that most of the people in the "other Christians" group are Protestants also.

[GePap]

As long as they don;t skip out on property taxes, let them take their kids out. It will allow for better education of the ones that stay in.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by civman2000

Hehehe...not even close. I don't have much time so I can't find better numbers, but...

Total Religious Population: 5,804,120,000

Christians (total): 1,955,229,000 (33.7%)

Roman Catholics: 981,465,000 (16.9%)
Protestants : 404,020,000 (7.0%)
Orthodox: 218,350,000 (3.8%)
Anglicans: 69,136,000 (1.2%)
Other Christians; 282,258,000 (4.9%)

http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutchr...mographics.htm

Yes, in the USA.
Baptist, Methodist, Penecostal, and on and on are all Protestants.

[Lonestar]

LIke I said, if it weren't "for the children" I'd be all for it, otherwise we'd end up with communities like the FLDS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints

which is bad juju for whoever ends up as second class citizens in that community.

[Kontiki]

Sloww is correct for the US:

http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#families

Largest denominational families in U.S., 2001
(self-identification, ARIS)

Denomination 1990 Est. Adult Pop.
2001 Est. Adult Pop.
2004 Est. Total Pop.
Est. % of U.S. Pop., 2001
% Change 1990 - 2001

Catholic 46,004,000 50,873,000 71,796,719 24.5% +11%
Baptist 33,964,000 33,830,000 47,744,049 16.3% 0%
Methodist/Wesleyan 14,174,000 14,150,000 19,969,799 6.8% 0%
Lutheran 9,110,000 9,580,000 13,520,189 4.6% +5%
Presbyterian 4,985,000 5,596,000 7,897,597 2.7% +12%
Pentecostal/Charismatic 3,191,000 4,407,000 6,219,569 2.1% +38%
Episcopalian/Anglican 3,042,000 3,451,000 4,870,373 1.7% +13%
Judaism 3,137,000 2,831,000 3,995,371 1.3% -10%
Latter-day Saints/Mormon 2,487,000 2,697,000 3,806,258 1.3% +8%
Churches of Christ 1,769,000 2,593,000 3,659,483 1.2% +47%
Congregational/
United Church of Christ 599,000 1,378,000 1,944,762 0.7%
Jehovah's Witnesses 1,381,000 1,331,000 1,878,431 0.6% -4%
Assemblies of God 660,000 1,106,000 1,560,890 0.5% +68%

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kontiki
Sloww is correct for the US:

There you go, giving him a fat head now

[SlowwHand]

Odds dictate I'm right sometimes.

[mrmitchell]

Public schools are a joke. Let them try to educate their kids in another manner if they wish, it could hardly be worse.

The only thing that holds public schools back is that they have to fight everyone on all sides. The gummint don't give them enough money. The local taxpayers hate having to do it. The state and feds are pushing new regulations down their throats every day. The wealthy take their kids to private schools. The poor expect school to be a nanny often 8+ hours a day for 9 months or the whole year. Intellectuals complain about how bad the system is compared to other countries. Rednecks ignore academics entirely just as long as the football team is winning, and religious nuts are fighting as hard as they can to keep the schools from teaching science at all.

Public schools just can't hold on to their smartest students. They all either go to special high schools or private schools. Meanwhile they are expected to work miracles on children with a bad or nonexistant home life, on a budget that makes you wonder if this country even gives a damn about the "future".

The government itself undercuts public schools with baloney like charter schools and home schooling. Baptists, please take your children out immediately. It's sorely obvious that public education is just something that America does not want to succeed.

[Lancer]

coppout

Is that spelled correctly? Can someone that went to private school or home school help me with this please?

[chequita guevara]

I think no one should be forced by their parents to learn religion until they are adults and capable of making up their own minds instead of being indoctrinated from birth.

[SlowwHand]

I know what you mean. Children are famous for their good decisions. Pudding for supper, such as that.

[Mr. Harley]

Mr.Mitchell

[Sikander]

Originally posted by mrmitchell

The only thing that holds public schools back is that they have to fight everyone on all sides. The gummint don't give them enough money. The local taxpayers hate having to do it. The state and feds are pushing new regulations down their throats every day. The wealthy take their kids to private schools. The poor expect school to be a nanny often 8+ hours a day for 9 months or the whole year. Intellectuals complain about how bad the system is compared to other countries. Rednecks ignore academics entirely just as long as the football team is winning, and religious nuts are fighting as hard as they can to keep the schools from teaching science at all.

Public schools just can't hold on to their smartest students. They all either go to special high schools or private schools. Meanwhile they are expected to work miracles on children with a bad or nonexistant home life, on a budget that makes you wonder if this country even gives a damn about the "future".

The government itself undercuts public schools with baloney like charter schools and home schooling. Baptists, please take your children out immediately. It's sorely obvious that public education is just something that America does not want to succeed.

While overwrought I can see some of your points, but the school budget thing is completely bogus. We spend more per pupil than almost any country on earth, with crap results. How many generations of pathetic academic results should "the government" put up with before it tries to fix the problem, with radical measures if necessary?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
I beg to differ. My school was infinitely better than most schools around it public or private. We crushed the private schools in academic competitions regularly.

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