One mom found out her kid had been baptized when she called her at work to ask for dry clothes.
more than 100 students without asking for parental permission. When some parents learned that their children had been baptized, they were upset and disappointed in the school’s lack of foresight.
The school holding the actual baptism moment was not out of the blue. A few students had previously signed up for scheduled baptisms that day as part of Spiritual Emphasis Week. However, once the school opened up the option of baptism to the entire student body, over 100 students came forward in a spur of the moment decision.
“It was not the intention of any faculty member to do anything behind a parent’s back or in any kind of secret way,” Renee McLamb, the head of the school, wrote in a letter to parents after the impromptu event.
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