Posted on 01/20/2022 9:03:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
No school is underfunded. None. Not a single one.
Schools have better facilities than 90% of all businesses. School systems now have 1-10 administration staff for every teacher. When I was a kid that wasn’t that way. Schools work days are less than they were in my school days.
In Highlands Ranch, Colorado, they had a school bond issue on the ballot. They had one a few years before and we were standing in that school to vote on the new bond. No one was voting fore it because the school was a built with no expense spared. Very expensive shiny polished granite walls and floors. The previous bond was supposed to build many schools and only built like two.
I suspect we’re talking of a so-called Little Blaine Amendment. These are state amendments designed to prevent public money going to parochial schools enacted during the anti-immigrant wave of the 1890s and early 20th century. They were anti-Catholic from the start.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1036/blaine-amendments
Let’s think about this for a minute. Currently there are seven Catholic justices on the Supreme Court; e.g., all the Republican appointees (*) and Sontomayor. The other two are Jewish, Democrat appointees.
(*) Gorsuch was raised Catholic, attends a Protestant church, and declines to state his religious belief.
If the Supremes use this case to state that the Little Blaine Americans are unconstitutional, Republican-controlled states would, I believe, quickly open financing schools of parental choice, via vouchers and otherwise, meeting minimum standards.
What parents have the time and money to fund frivolous lawsuits like this I wonder
YEP. Concrete block would work just as well, IMO.
I remember, when I was in grade school, my mother making an issue with the school board in the city where we lived. This would have been probably late 1960s. She was livid that they were buying some huge and pricey (maybe $2,000 back at that time) leather executive chairs for the school board members to sit on, during board meetings. I don’t remember what she did, other than to bring attention to the issue, but bless her for that.
I am sure this had an impact on my awareness of “government largesse”.....
In West Virginia? Really??
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Why would that surprise you?
BS, you don’t lose a penny, the money follow the student so you have one less student to fund yourselves.
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West Virginia is pretty red neck with not many exceptions.
the complainants must have moved to WV from up North bringing their liberalism with them
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I guess that would explain why Byrd, Rockefeller and Manchin along with a string of RAT governors keep getting elected here.
For some reason, FReepers persist in using this Redstate/Bluestate metric...sad.
PS, WV was born of the War Between the States to separate from Virginia and join the North.
“... persist in using this Redstate/Bluestate metric...sad....”
True, but WV mostly elects conservatives. My thought on the post went to a recent article about some Floridians telling New Yorkers that they were welcome to Florida only if they left their liberalism in NY. And here in NC in the Raleigh/Durham area when they developed the “Triangle,” the companies locating there seem to mostly come have from liberal states, so much so that is is now a deep blue area of the state.
Please forgive me if it sounds like I'm looking down my nose at WV - I actually love the state. I'm just making an observation based on my experience.
Exactly. We are paying taxes anyway, so in the land of the free, we should have the choice, shouldn’t we?
The neo-Marxist parents don’t care their public school is siphoning money away from students in Christian schools. Private school parents pay the double whammy.
Ideology of liberal vs conservative has little to do with voting R or D in WV. I’d hardly call Byrd, Rockefeller, Wise, Tomblin, Manchin, Capito or Justice a conservative.
There is no great influx of population to WV from the North or any were. Matter of fact, we even lost a seat in Congress with this last census. If anything, the exodus over the last few decades has been of productive citizens, leaving behind a greater percentage of government dependents....of which I’m one since I’m on SS retirement benefits. I came here from NYC in 2002. I looked into the Carolinas back then, but there were too many NYers there for me to be interested. At the age of 77, I’m getting to the point where I will no longer have a dog in this fight.
This suit was brought in Kanawah county, home of Charleston and Huntington, two large (for WV) urban areas.
The isolation of communities is one reason I moved here 20 years ago.
PS.....No offense was taken at all on my part.
“...no longer have a dog in this fight....”
am in same boat - just like to bark once in a while
Yeah.....but the clouds never listen!
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