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Posted on 02/01/2008 7:06:42 PM PST by RTO
In a case that could wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court, an appeals panel upheld dismissal of a lawsuit by Massachusetts parents seeking to prevent discussion of homosexual families in their children's elementary school classrooms.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday agreed with a judge's decision last year that a school can expose children to contrary ideas without violating their parents' rights to exercise religious beliefs.
Lynch reasoned that schools must accept the Massachusetts high court's groundbreaking 2003 decision ruling "that the state constitution mandates the recognition of same-sex marriage."
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"Did you hear that, lover? Free at last!"
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From an educational and developmental standpoint, there is no reason for children in kindergarten to have exposure to any sexual material whatsoever. That the material is inappropriate to the developmental age regardless of the nature of the sexual issues involved may have been a better tact to take with the courts than the religious one. A secular court would be more likely to listen to the secular argument than the religious one.
Everyone of these people can afford private school, and likely every one of those families could get the mom back into the home! All it would take is some very moderate downsizing.
I enjoy soda. It costs about $1 a day, or $365 a year. That is the cost of one month’s tuition at a typical private school in my state. Surely, a family can find 9 bad habits, similar to mine, that would pay for private school.
It is amazing parents who pay for babysitting when their kids are pre-schoolers, suddenly can not afford private school when their kids reach kindergarten. The typical private school costs about as much a babysitting!
I enjoy skiing in the West. Every adult who has bought and paid for a vacation to these resorts can afford to privately or home school their children. The children and adults that I meet on the ski lifts, though, are using government schools. If these families can afford a Colorado, Idaho, or Utah ski vacation, the mom can afford to stay home and homeschool. These parents are selling their children’s very lives ( spiritual and temporal) in exchange for a vacation!
As you go about your life this coming week, please notice what people are doing.
Are families standing in line at the movies, or at the video store? How many times could they do that a year before it added up to one month’s tuition at a private church school?
Are families in line at Mc Donalds. How many times would they need to do that a year to pay for one month’s tuition?
Is this family sitting on the beach and are their kids eating concession stand hot dogs and drinking soda? How many times are they doing that a year?
Notice the cars filled with kids waiting to get into your local amusement park. Add up the gas, the cost of the concession food, and the admission ticket. How many times could they do that before it added up to one month’s private tuition.
When parents tell me that the mom HAS to work, or they can not afford to privately or home school. It is almost certainly NOT the case.
These parents are doing it because the want the government babysitting.
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Why would a mass withdraw cause massive tax increases on a federal and local level?
“They are just as bad, ...”
Back in the late 90s, we found this to be true in CT parochial schools. We pulled the kids, all 5, out and initiated our homeschooling then.
The teachers were probably educated at my Catholic alma mater, Villanova.
Wow! Liberation Theology was all the rage!
Holy mackerel wintertime!! What state are you in?
But you're spot on, almost everyone can afford to homeschool, it's all in the choices they make.
Ok, there are some parents working off a stupendous mortgage they should never have signed onto. That's a bit harder to unhitch. And MAYBE a few can't teach high school courses as well as a public school teacher. I suppose that's possible. Nevertheless, most of them have no excuse. Or rather they have all sorts of excuses and no grounds.
This is a sore point with me and if I keep on posting I'll just offend someone touchy. So I'll close by saying that dependency doesn't always mean living in your parents' basement, or cashing welfare checks; you're not standing on two legs when you let the nanny state manage the daycare of your babies. And the main difference among those three is, you'd be ashamed of the first two. For a little while.
Here’s the thing that I remind myself of every day: The Bible says that when things get REALLY bad, when the “man of evil” gets here, WE will be GONE. These things cannot happen until His spirit is taken from the world. WE are that spirit and evil can only advance so far.
Until then, I realize a lot of truly bad things can go wrong and a lot more needs to happen. There is still that whole “hand of God” business waiting in the wings, as when Israel is attacked. God has used many different “hands” in history. I think this country still has a “hands” destiny waiting...
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Are you sure it wasn't Nixon's fault?
As I see it, using my local school district for the example, if every child in public school puts $10000 into the system, and removing them takes it out, someone's not skimming that money anymore. I know for a fact that the main objection to homeschooling here is the money they don't get for that student. They get it from state and federal sources, and they don't spend it all on the student. Not even close.
Now if the bloodsuckers in other areas are like ours here, they will see to it that taxes are raised to fill those pockets. I admit that is very cynical, but we are talking about bureaucrats.
By the way, here in PA there are charter schools and cyber schools that derive money from the govt, ie taxpayers, and a lot more of them would arise as homeschooling became more popular. Homeschool parents here generally don't favor the charters because they are really just another govt intrusion in sheep's clothing. If public schools suffered a perceptible drop in swag (govt funds to be skimmed), govt would invent Homeschool Commissions, Truancy Tribunals, Alternate Schooling Cooperatives, Student Health Councils, etc., and place them in every district.
"Pretty soon you're talking real money."
By the way, I grew up in the Kensington area of Philadelphia. I attended St. Joan of Arc.
The tuition at St. Joan of Arc for the 2002/2003 year was $2,383 a year. They closed soon after, due to declining enrollment. ( Probably due to competition from the free charters.)
$2,383 a year is **less** than the cost of babysitting.
In my current state there isn’t the Catholic school tradition, and private schooling on average is somewhat more. (Approximately $4,000/year for elementary school).
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I wonder how many judges belong to NAMBLA
Ah, that's more like it. In your other post you wrote:
It costs about $1 a day, or $365 a year.
Typical is more like ten times that. Still, I do believe most people could swing it if they acknowledged the importance of removing their children from bad influences like public schooling for 6-8 hours a day.
There's also discounts, and scholarships out there.
You know how they say, "If you think medical care is costly now, wait 'til it's free!" One could have said the same of public schooling. How much of your local taxes goes to schooling, folks? How much of it would you need to teach your child at home? How much is allocated at every level of govt, to teach your child in school?
Yet those same people who bemoan the health care godzilla coming over the horizon, and criticize the recipients of care at another's expense, are utterly at peace with themselves as they send their kids to public school each morning.
Free education, like free health care, isn't free, and it isn't quality. (Besides, why do you need to choose your doctor? You don't mind having no choice about your child's teachers!)
The following is what I wrote:
I enjoy soda. It costs about $1 a day, or $365 a year. That is the cost of one month’s tuition at a typical private school in my state. Surely, a family can find 9 bad habits, similar to mine, that would pay for private school.
Thanks wintertime, you’re right. My second cup of coffee has unsealed my eyes :) You did write that it represented a month, not a year.
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Do you see those long lines in Starbucks? Well, at $4 a cup, plus a sweet treat, each day adds up to quite a few months of private tuition each year.
Just this **one** habit could go a **long** way to putting a child in private school or getting the mom back in the home.
LOL! Proud to tell ya I’m not at Starbucks! I haven’t even been to a Dunkin Donuts in about sixty housefly generations.
That said, I make really terrible coffee. :D
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