Posted on 08/28/2011 10:39:08 AM PDT by PROCON
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils. It's a scenario public school advocates have long feared: Students fleeing local districts in large numbers, taking with them vital tax dollars that often end up at parochial schools. Opponents say the practice violates the separation of church and state.
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Fantastic! I used to love saying the pledge (including under God) and then going to church before class. It gave a feeling of security.
That’s what a good education does. That’s why libs hate it so much. You get a great education, love of God and country, whereas public schools just don’t care for the most part.
How is it wrong for parents to CHOOSE to send their kids to parochial schools. This is awesome news. :)
Actually, it was the Lord’s Prayer and the raising of the flag before entering class. You almost never see that anymore.
We even had a sister school, St Scholastica, where you see in the movies the boys school would visit the coed school? Yeah, that happened every semester. I would make sure to get 10 girls’ phone numbers LOL.
That sounds about right... the phone numbers. The sisters at our school didn’t take any nonsense and could use a ruler like a Jedi Knight. Oh the memories. LOL
And your ideal educational environment is...?
“Most of the colleges in the United States that started over 300 years ago were Bible-proclaiming schools originally. Harvard and Yale (originally Puritan) and Princeton (originally Presbyterian) once had rich Christian histories.
Harvard was named after a Christian minister. Yale was started by clergymen, and Princeton’s first year of class was taught by Reverend Jonathan Dickinson. Princeton’s crest still says “Dei sub numine viget,” which is Latin for “Under God she flourishes.”
In the United Kingdom, the earliest university-type establishment was probably the College, established by the Celtic preacher St. Illtyd in about AD 500. Oxford University was established by various religious orders. Likewise, Cambridge University was established in 1209 by Christian leaders. Saint Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university, was founded principally for the teaching and study of theology. The commitment of these religious founders might be suspect, but many of the later colleges were founded by Bible-believing Christians. The University of Edinburgh had a thoroughly evangelical beginning, being founded under Presbyterian auspices.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/harvard-yale-princeton-oxford-once-christian
“Imagine that, Indiana following the lead of a backward Southern state like Louisiana.”
You obviously have NOT read the MSM style book.
The phrase is NOT “a backward Southern state”. It must be written “Backward-Southern-State”. There are no other types of Southern states. Florida south of Ft Pierce does not count, as there are sufficient enlightened people from the North to serve as an antidote.
/sarc
Parents just ought to say I have a right to send my kid to the school I want. My tax dollars, my right. You don’t want to give me a voucher, stop forcing me to pay public school taxes that I don’t use.
They may demand the stings of controlling the curriculum.
HOME!!!
Thanks PROCON.
Schools get tax dollars based on number of students... 1 less student = "x" less tax dollars. 2 less Students = "2x" less tax dollars. Further if I read the Indiana Law right those Vouchers are funded with Tax Dollars. (Though much less than what the public school got for the student)
I wish when my daughter was going to Catholic School we could have gotten a voucher!
Vital? Really? Vital to whom? Huh?
Answer: Vital to the Union and the Democrat slush fund.
It's only partly from the parents. The rest comes from those who do not have children of K-12 age.
Ideally there should be complete separation of school and state. All education (**ALL** )should be completely and totally privatized. If vouchers, tax credits, and charters lead in that direction then I support them. If they lead to government control of private education then I don't.
The most ideal and natural way to rear up healthy, emotionally confident, and well educated children is to homeschool.
Yes, some children will need to be institutionalized. It is a shame. Some parents are just too stupid, too materialistic, too selfish, too career minded, too mentally ill, too poor, too illiterate, too disorganized, etc., to homeschool. We need orphanages, too, but no one is claiming this is the best way to rear a child.
The first colleges in America weren’t “’Christian Run’ schools” ... they were seminaries where religious leaders were trained.
Okay, let me get this straight for the liberal rule book I’m trying to put together:
I’m qualified to choose whether or not to abort my baby but not qualified enough to decide where my non-aborted baby receives an education?
In Marxist-land, a 12 or 13 year old is mature enough to “elect” an abortion and find a capable baby butcher, but her parents are too uncaring and too stupid to choose a private school.
Keeping the status quo is easier than
innovating. If vouchers are going to “siphon money from government schools” why isn’t the same true in higher education?
I don’t hear state college professors running around crying about Pell grant(”government dollars”)money “unfairly” being used to attend St.Thomas,Gustavus,St.Johns or other private religiously affiliated schools.
What happened to the magic wall between “church and state” there?
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