And when the ONLY "private schools" available ONLY teach a certain version of Christianity, then any kid who's parents want them to learn a DIFFERENT religion is SOL.
Parents have a choice. Where there's a public school, kids can go there. Where there's no public school, they can go to a non-faith based school.
A religious cult cult can open a non-denomination school if they like. Separate it from the church. Then my tax dollars aren’t going to brainwashing kids.
Thankfully, there is a very simple solution for you.
I don’t have children. However, to my knowledge, there isn’t a non religious private school within 100 miles of where I sit. Is there one in Iowa City? If so, 50 miles.
Church of Satan opening schools from seashore to seashore with a couple of purple mountains and maybe some grain thrown in for good measure. #GBA
Well then, the next adjacent public district. (This is precisely how the Maine program worked.)
What's your "solution" if a bunch of rich Muslims open up a kids school where they want to teach and indoctrinate the local population with Sharia Law religion, and the state is now REQUIRED to allow funding for it?
Simple. Don’t send your kids there. Or, if you’re really that exorcised about it, tell your legislators to either ditch their voucher program, or modify it to only allow use at other public schools.
What if certain people WANT to send their kids there?
Yep, just as you have to pay for the installation of a stoplight in Bangor even if you live in Augusta. That's the nature of republican government - the lawful policies enacted by the elected representatives are funded by the public at large, rather than discrete cost allocated. You can imagine the world works otherwise, but that would be, in the recent words of Justice Alito, "fantasy land".
I have to pay for public schools, even though I don't agree with some of what is taught, and I have no kids in public school. I had to pay for public schools when I had a kid in private school.
Do tell. How, exactly, does giving a parent a school voucher equate to the government establishing, or even endorsing a particular religion?
Yes, and the point of it is neutrality to religion and religiously affiliated organizations, not hostility to it.
This is an asinine take. You cannot exclude a group of schools based on religious affiliation if you're going to include other private schools. This is so fundamentally clear, I cannot believe, even in this environment, there is disagreement.Ruling that religious based schools have to be eligible for voucher programs.
Supreme Court says Maine cannot exclude religious schools from tuition assistance programs
The 6-3 ruling is the latest move by the conservative court to expand religious liberty rights and bring more religion into public life.www.cnn.com
The SCOTUS doesn't say only one particular religion gets the vouchers. Where do you come up with stuff like that? This is based on parental choice, not government choice.
If they had a problem with it, they wouldnt send their kids there.
That is absolutely not what the decision says at all. The decision literally says that the government can not use vouchers for one group while at the same discriminating against another group by not offering them the same thing so you either are a liar or are just ignorant.Ruling that religious based schools have to be eligible for voucher programs.
Supreme Court says Maine cannot exclude religious schools from tuition assistance programs
The 6-3 ruling is the latest move by the conservative court to expand religious liberty rights and bring more religion into public life.
Ordinarily I give the benefit of the doubt and lean to ignorant but I’m starting to wonder here.
