Word: baptiste
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...independence of that ministry was resoundingly upheld last week. In a strong, unambiguous decision, a Michigan judge reaffirmed the First Amendment guarantee of separation of church and state by exempting private Christian schools from state supervision of their curriculum and teachers. Ministers, teachers and parents of the Bridgeport Baptist Academy and the Sheridan Road Christian School, both near Saginaw, had charged that attempts by the state's board of education to supervise curriculum and teacher qualifications violated their religious freedom. Judge Ray Hotchkiss agreed, ruling that the board, by imposing its secular standards of education on religious schooling, "interfered...
...proliferated over the past decade-with an estimated enrollment of 600,000 students nationwide-so have conflicts with state authorities. In Nebraska, the Rev. Everett Sileven of Louisville was jailed four times in 1982 for defying a court decision requiring him to hire state-approved teachers for his Faith Baptist School. In Massachusetts, Assistant Attorney General Maria Lopez has asked a civil court to impose a $100-a-day fine on two ministers who operate the Grace Bible Church Christian School in Dracut until they agree to report the names, ages and residences of their 30 students. In Maine...
...require their private schools to use state-certified teachers. Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools for years have accommodated state requirements. But the Protestant fundamentalists who run the new Christian schools interpret both the Bible and their mission more rigidly. The Rev. Gerald Somero, 42, minister of the Sheridan Road Baptist Church, believes that by complying with licensing requirements "we are saying to the state 'you have a right to choose whom God has called to the ministry of teaching...
...States generally require that teachers be college graduates with a certain number of education credits and practice-teaching hours. In contrast, teachers at the Bridgeport Baptist Academy must be "born again," regard teaching as a spiritual calling and live by biblical standards. They must have some college training, preferably at a Christian institution, but a bachelor's degree is not essential. Nonetheless, some teachers at these schools are highly qualified by any secular standard: Allen, for instance, not only has a teaching degree but a master's in divinity, both from Christian colleges...
...requiring classroom discussion of such touchy subjects as sex education and feminism. Be cause secular humanism is in conflict with the Bible, as these parents see it, it is a sin for them to send their children to public schools. Says Blanche Reinbolt, who has three children at Bridgeport Baptist Academy: "I've seen what certified public school teachers have done for my kids, and it wasn't good...