I never heard the term 'baptistic'. Did you just make it up to describe them, or is it a real thing.

Baptists allowed a prom? Southern Baptists? I mean, the ABC (American Baptist Conference -- Jesse's dad's flavor) has been dancing for years, but they allow women in the ministry, and all sorts of libertine behavior.

Some non-denoms are less fundy, some (as are some Indy Baptists) more so.

In conclusion: SINGLE SEX SIDEWALKS?

Imaginary numbers are totally gay. Anyone who uses them is going to hell.

What was the non-secular version?

Well, any curriculum not written by BJ or Pensacola or some other Christian curriculum writer was considered "secular." I'll have to see if I can find out who developed this curriculum.

(because after all, they had a prom)

You misspelled "orgy."

We had a "Jr/Sr Banquet." It was all very exciting.

Mom and dad actually let me go to after-prom at the local public high school, since I went there for a couple classes. It's where I met my first boyfriend. He was the band director's son. He was a sweetie. But, boy were my parents criticized for letting me date someone from the public school.

Mom actually got them to approve a secular math curriculum for Jr High and High School, which was HUGE

Your mom is awesome. I can joke about the prom thing, but I have HUGE (and, apparently, obvious) issues with the fact that S got a really shitty education because so much of the curriculum in 8 years of home schooling and 4 years of really insular Christian schools was designed around not exposing kids to this idea or that.

Saxon Math! That was it! [link]

None of the people who went to my H.S. on livejournal seemed familiar to me, but some were scary. I am glad I don't list my high school in my profile. I don't want these people finding me.

Your mom is awesome.

My mom is awesome.

Actually, so is my dad. He taught at one of the colleges that I mentioned above (don't want to give a specific). He left there after the administration decided not to pursue accreditation. It was one of the reasons he took a position as a professor there. He was to develop their Learning Disabilities Education program for accreditation. He felt like he had no point after they decided not to pursue that.

My parents are Christians, but they're educators to the core. And they wanted us to have the best education possible, and did what they needed to for that.

I went to a Southern Baptist college. Dancing on campus was not allowed. I mean, organized dances. You could certainly dance on your own and no one cared. Clubs would host dances off campus as fundraisers.

I never heard the term 'baptistic'. Did you just make it up to describe them, or is it a real thing.

Nope. As far as I understand it, it's kind of, "our ideas come out of the Baptist stream (as opposed to, say, the Pentecostals), but we don't want to be associated with the denomination in any way."

As far as the Baptist proms go, their schools around here tend to be a lot like the school in Saved -- very much of the shiny mega-church, Christian rock, slick and appealing trend in evangelical culture. My in-laws won't join any church that allows recorded music in services, because you never know if someone might have snuck some wrong message in there later on in the tape and you can't check the tape out beforehand because then the tape-checker-outer would be at risk of hearing it.

(Although, honestly? Can't remember if Partha is male or female. Must get out yearbook.)

Male! Hee.

(And brenda, thanks for taking a stand, because I'm not good at that. I think it's totally cool too, and I love when that shit happens. A few months ago, a similar thing happened where an LJ friend mentioned me in her journal, and the ex-boyfriend of another, totally unconnected friend of mine was all, "How do YOU know him?" And I was all, "What, how do YOU know her?!" And, yes, they went to high school together. It was crazy times.)