According to The Fayetteville Observer, a North Carolina school baptized more than 100 youngsters without their parents’ permission.

Parents were outraged to find that their children had been baptized at Northwood Temple Academy.

“‘Mama, can you bring me some dry clothes?'” my daughter asks from school. “I had my baptism today,” one father told the Observer. “I said, “What?'”

That parent told the Observer that she found out her 11-year-old daughter had been baptized while on a conference call at work.

According to Northwood Principal Renee McLamb, a few pupils were slated to be baptized. However, the remainder of the children were motivated to participate in the ceremony, according to McLamb, who added that she did not intend for the event to be kept secret from parents.

“Truly, the Lord began to move this morning, and we were overjoyed at what He was doing.” “Several students gave their lives to the Lord during Spiritual Emphasis Week and were scheduled to be baptized this morning,” she explained in an email to the Observer. “But the Lord’s Spirit moved, and the invitation to accept the Lord and be baptized was given, and the students just began to respond to the presence of the Lord.”

McLamb received complaints from a number of parents.

“In hindsight, we would do it differently and give the students the opportunity to contact their parents and ask permission to be baptized,” the principal said in an email to the Observer. “We were not expecting such a strong reaction to the message that was delivered, but as a mother, I understand why some parents were upset.”

Some parents expressed disappointment that they were unable to attend their child’s baptism, a religious service that is normally performed with a family gathering to witness the occasion.

Another parent expressed concern that the school’s baptism “undid the baptism that had already taken place at their church.”

“This is what I think they should have done,” the 11-year-old’s mom told the Observer. “They should have gathered the children in the back of the church, in another room — somewhere — and said, ‘We understand your desire to complete this task.'” We’d want your relatives to be present as well.”

“Or invitations, even,” she continued.