mark francis
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You might find out the name of our school if I post more state history referencing our pastor who helped get the state law changed to remove NC Christians schools from state regulation and biased oversight.
aolr (nc.gov)
History of Private School Regulation in North Carolina
by David Morgan, North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education
... By this time, the fundamentalists had become aware that their problems with the State were more serious and more irreconcilable than they had previously realized. In June of 1977, Kelly, Carr and Ulrich, who had emerged as the principal leaders and spokesmen for the fundamentalist schools, arranged to meet with Mr. William B. Ball, noted constitutional lawyer who specialized in cases involving infringement of religious rights, at his office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Ball was best known for his defense before the U.S. Supreme Court of an Amish community in Wisconsin v. Yoder, a landmark case in which the Court agreed that the Amish were justified in the practice, predicated on their religious beliefs, of withdrawing their children from school at the age of 14 – a violation of compulsory school attendance laws. Mr. Ball convinced the North Carolina school leaders that the crucial issue in their case was that of State approval of private schools. In a 1976 case, the Supreme Court of Ohio had ruled in favor of a group of Christian schools in the State which believed that State approval of their schools was a violation of religious freedom. The Christian schools’ case, however, had been weakened by the fact that they had sought approval and cooperated with State officials until shortly before litigation began – an indication, the State’s attorneys had argued, that their religious objections were not really very serious.
... A strong, responsible system of private education is essential because it provides an alternative, a free choice. The Reverend Kelly made it clear in his testimony in the 1978 trial that what he means by education is something entirely different than what Dr. Melton or Dr. Phillips mean:
“I have a definition of education based on the Bible, I believe. I believe personally – and this is what we teach – that education is the acquisition of true knowledge and true wisdom. Now, you might be gathering facts as far as a “person perceives them in other areas, but true education is only that, and we believe that you can only get true wisdom and true knowledge from the Word of God ultimately.”16
My wife has taught in our Christian school for 49 years. Her fellow Bob Jones graduates also teach and/or taught there, including two teachers whose daughter was a student there and who also later graduated from Bob Jones University and was appointed by Trump to serve as an ambassador to the UN.
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