For the time being,
Spunkie Public School is no more. The sidebar content will remain for now, as we feel it is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in programs and ministries that are pro-actively serving our public schools.
First of all, we would like to apologize if we offended anyone. While we were hoping to get a reaction from our readers, we assure you that spiteful offense or hurt feelings were not our goals.
However, if you were offended, take this opportunity to truly think about your reaction: much of the phrasing and logic on our blog was similar (and in some cases indentical) to that of the blogs we were attempting to parody. If your reaction to our blog was so visceral, how would you expect, for example, an atheist attending public school to react while reading many of the homeschooling blogs on the internet that make equally wild assertions, "prove" them with scripture, and expect to be taken seriously? Such extremism is harmful to Christianity as a faith, and such detriment is not something that we felt we could sit by and idly watch. Parody was simply the medium we chose to open minds (and, hopefully, we got a few laughs along the way).
Unfortunately, we do not know exactly what rumors and accusations are being passed around behind our backs, and, as such, we are not able to respond to them directly. We have, however, received indication that a considerable amount of gossip is going around in an attempt to discover who is running this blog, and most of it is wrong. We would like to remind you that "gossiping" over the internet and accusing a Christian brother/sister of an offense without first going to him is unscriptural. We are aware circumstantial evidence might seem to point to some particular individuals, but we would like to remind all of you that the internet is a land of numbers and proxies, routers and computers: things are not always as they seem, and making absolute identification of an individual person sitting at a specific terminal is almost impossible. Keeping this in mind, we hope you will not make an ungracious assumption about any blogger without first speaking to him or her.
And, with that, we are going to end our little blog. We hope that you had the happiest of holidays and pray that you will all have a blessed 2006. However, we are still here and have not lost the ability to read and write: if ideas as extreme as the ones parodied in this blog continue to circulate, do not be surprised to hear from us again. Let's remember that our Christian brothers and sisters reside in all segments of the educational community: public schooling, private schooling, and homeschooling and let's keep our eyes and our blogs focused on Christ, the all-sufficient Savior who is indeed very present in all our schools.
And with that, we must sign off for now.
- Spunkie Public School
