48 hours later his parents pulled him out of band. 7 out of 8 JW kids have been pulled out of band in the past 2 weeks. These kids love my class.
Ugh that is so frustrating. Keep trying to inspire these kids if you get more of them. I bet even the short time they spend in your class will be a shining memory for them to maybe one day help them out.
I have great hope that my own "young one" will drift away from the JW's.
I just wanted to chime in with more of an observation/question about JW strategy toward young people -- it seems like the WT does very little to retain kids, other than trying to baptize them early. What I mean is, there is no sunday school or bible study just with kids; there is no youth group. there are no "lock ins" or any other sanctioned activities. Kids are treated from the beginning as little adults. They sit through the same meetings, read the same materials, get spanked if they act like KIDS during meetings... There are special publications for them, a few, but by and large they are not treated differently from adults. Not coming from a JW background I can tell you I find this very odd.
Not that I want to give this organization any suggestions, but it would seem to me that more youth fun activities and age-appropriate and interactive teaching would go a long way. I'm glad they don't do this but it has always struck me as a little weird. Why don't they?