HEY! WHAT ABOUT US?
Homeschoolers were omitted in the following calculation:
OF THE ROUGHLY 50 million children enrolled in American grade schools, all but about 5 million attend government-run public schools. Of those 5 million, approximately 800,000 attend secular private schools. That leaves just 4.2 million who attend the nation’s religious schools — only one American child in 12.
The piece is an observant Jew’s response to T. C. Pinckney. It’s pretty good, and I’m sure Pinckney would agree with nearly all of it. But, not this:
T.C. Pinckney, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Houston attorney Bruce Shortt. Lay leaders in the Baptist church, they have drafted a resolution… urging the denomination’s 16 million members to take their children out of public schools and either home school them or send them to parochial schools. [emphasis added]
Parochial schools? In the South? I think he means private, Christian schools. I grew up Catholic in SC. Trust me; you just don’t want to confuse parochial (i.e., Catholic) schools with the private schools.
Of course, the writer is in Boston where the two terms are probably synonymous.