http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3293124/posts
An an article from Christianity Today (LINK)
It was claimed that this was all caused by Israeli budget cuts impacting everybody. But explain to me how this makes sense:
Right now the parents whose 30,000 children are attending Catholic schools, pay A LOT for their education: tuition + fees + of course, they are taxpayers as well. Now the Israeli Ministry of Education wants to LIMIT the amount of fees they can charge to parents. You'd think that if they were concerned about "budget issues," they'd want the Christian schools to collect MORE fees from the parents, and use less tax money.
And then they offer as an alternative, that these should all become public schools --- which means Israeli taxpayers would be paying, not just some fraction of the cost, but 100% of the cost.
Obviously, this would cost the taxpayers/government a whole heckuva lot more.
It doesn't look like the solution to an Israeli budget problem to me. It looks like a state takeover agenda.
Things that make you go “hmmmmmm”.....
I’d say the claim that the Israeli government is prohibiting these schools from charging more in tuition needs independent verification. Does the AP article verify it? (I don’t know, I’ve decided to not read entire articles anymore, you know, to fit in around here.)
If both the AP and Christianity Today claim it is so, do we trust the claim? When is there enough evidence?
(Questions not just for you; for all)
The way the AP is presenting it, it is the Jews defunding the Christians.
Nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity.
...Chinuch Atzmai schools are referred to as “recognized/unofficial” schools that receive state funding. When the individual schools submit their paperwork to renew their status and entitlement to funding, if they are not 100% in compliance with the new directive, they will not be accepted and lose most of their funding.
The permits of all Chinuch Atzmai schools expired and every school will have to apply for eligibility once again, and those failing to comply with the new curriculum will be without the majority of the schools’ funding...