[Vision2020] The Neo-Confederacy at Logos School

[Nicholas Gier]

Greetings:

Thanks for a Christ Church insider/outsider, I now have all I need to 
refute every charge in Tom Garfield's recent letter to the editor.  
Wayne Fox will post the picture of Lee at Logos separately as I cannot 
get the file to attach.

To the Editor:

In his letter (Letters, Nov. ?) Tom Garfield claims that Logos School 
does not own, let alone hang, a portrait of Robert E. Lee at Logos 
School. A picture of Lee's portrait hanging in a Logos classroom has 
been
posted on Moscow's Vision2020, so perhaps Garfield can explain the 
discrepancy.

Garfield also states that Logos School would use the Confederate flag 
for teaching purposes only, but I have it on good authority that the 
flag has been displayed in Logos classrooms, social functions, and 
during Wilson’s Sunday sermons.

Readers will recall a letter to this paper by a minister of Wilson’s 
own denomination who testified that a Confederate flag was prominently 
displaced in Wilson's office.

Garfield also says that Wilson does not physically own Logos School, 
but that was not my point at all. Wilson can be the founder and leader 
of classical Christian education in America without actually owning a 
single school.

It is surely not a coincidence that the international headquarters of 
the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS) is right here in 
Moscow.  On January 31, 2004 Wilson was the keynote speaker for the 
annual ACCS meeting. He was introduced as the founder of Logos School 
and New St. Andrews College.

In the spring of 2004 I got a call from the husband of a teacher at 
Cary Christian School in Cary, an ACCS school in North Carolina.  He 
was outraged that Wilson’s book condoning slavery was required reading 
at the school. School board members were also required to read 
Wilson’s book "The Case for Classical Christian Education."

The synergy between America’s private religious and public schools has 
been a very constructive one. But when preachers such as Wilson 
condemn “government” schools and most other Christian schools, he 
polarizes educational issues in a very destructive way.

Nick Gier, Moscow