What a bunch of insipid crap.
Everybody is feeling the budget crunch in Israel. Try sending a kid to a Jewish school there too. Costs a lot.
AP = Associated Propaganda
The government is also limiting their ability to raise private funds, according to the article.
35 years ago, we put our children in a Baptist church school. We were told at that time that if we ever received any taxpayer money, through vouchers or any other way because our children were in a private school, we’d be asked to remove our kids from the school. A policy I agreed with 100%.
So what is inaccurate? Are the Nuns agitators?
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.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The AP article falsely depicts this as a Jews harming Christians issue, which it isn't, it's a public vs private issue of both funding and curricula, which has been a big issue usually passed off as crazy Haredi Jews objecting to more math and science. But you could get the basic Jews harming Christians facts from the article, spread out
The Christian schools' fight reflects a wider battle being waged by other private schools - which have the status of being "recognized but unofficial." According to the Education Ministry, there are a total of 277 elementary schools with this status. Christian administrators say their 47 church-run elementary schools are affected by the budget crisis.These schools are all facing the same budget cuts that the Christian private schools are, said Amnon De Hartog, a lawyer representing one of 23 private schools - mostly Jewish religious schools - that are petitioning Israel's Supreme Court against the recent budget cuts.
47 Church schools out of 277 impacted by the cuts, hardly an action directed at Christians.
Per the Independent and Fox, The Christian schools' fight reflects a wider battle being waged by other private schools — which have the status of being "recognized but unofficial." According to the Education Ministry, there are a total of 277 elementary schools with this status. Christian administrators say their 47 church-run elementary schools are affected by the budget crisis....Advocates for the Arab community in Israel say the situation of church-run schools is different from other private schools. Some 30,000 Arab students — about half of them Muslim and half of them Christian — study in about 50 church-run schools in the country.So of the 47 to 50 of 277, half the students may be Muslim, Jews discriminating against Christians and Muslims I guess.
So 47 of 277, less than 20% of the schools impacted are Christian, or Christian and Muslim, 80% of the schools impacted are Jewish, and it's a Jews vs Christian issue.
> Thought the best way for the government to take their hands off your schools was to not rely on public money?
/bingo