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I have to agree with Prax and Ron. Your overall points are good ones, but when you bring what most are going to view as utterly silly examples in to prove those points, you lose credibility.
When you are addressing a huge problem, and then you relegate the cause to something such as kids having a separate class from adults once a week...well...that's just laughable.
By the way, in our church children are welcomed and cherished. However, in order to teach them about Jesus at the earliest age possible, we give them their own class with stories that are on their level, without big words and confusing adult-like examples. Good teachers teach on the level of the audience. Jesus did that. It has nothing to do with segregating families and keeping parents apart from their children.
Also, there are things that sometimes ought to be discussed in adult classes that children don't need to be present for, IMO. I do not know of any churches that:
1. Don't allow children to be in the main services.
2. Force children to attend Sunday School classes if they don't want to or if their parents don't want them to.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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