Posted on 01/25/2018 5:10:54 PM PST by marshmallow
The following article was written by Avi Schick and appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It was sent to YWN by the author:
Even ardent opponents of school choice accept that parents have the right to send their children to private schools. That may soon change in New York state, where education officials are preparing new guidelines to impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to meet state standards. The plan is not only ill-advised, it may end up costing the state billions in annual school aid to nonpublic schools.
Parents have had a legally recognized constitutional right to guide their children’s education for nearly a century. The Supreme Court’s 1925 decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters established that children are “not mere creatures of the state” and that parents have the right to choose “schools where their children will receive appropriate mental and religious training.” Almost 50 years later, in Wisconsin v. Yoder , the court reaffirmed these rights, recognizing the “fundamental interest of parents, as contrasted with that of the State, to guide the religious future and education of their children.”
The trade-off has always been that parents, not the state, must foot the bill for private education. In New York the government saves billions annually because parents choose to send their children to religious or private schools. New York’s Jewish and Catholic schools alone educate 330,000 children, nearly 200,000 of whom attend New York City parochial schools.
Only a fraction of these savings finds its way back to New York’s nonpublic schools and students. Students are entitled to about $100 a year in loaned textbooks as well as library and computer materials. Private schools receive the equivalent of a.......
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I suspect that this decision has LGBT written all over it.
Christianity only has so long before it’s illegal in the U.S.
You hang in there buddy.
It sounds like the forces of evil are about to have their balls fed to them.
I wonder what happened to the Orthodox Jewish girls’ elementary school in London that was threatened with closure because they weren’t teaching about “sexual minorities and gender transitioning” or something like that.
“I suspect that this decision has LGBT written all over it.”
This is exactly at the heart of this.
Ping
For some reason I couldn’t get through to the site to read the whole article. But one thing that did occur to me is that are religious schools that will be allowed...Islamic schools. This is despite the fact that they hate women, teach female inferiority, technically hate gays (although they are permitted by the Koran and their religious authorities to practice pedophilia and pederasty and appear to enjoy it immensely), and teach everything based on the 7th century ravings of a madman.
But that’s okay...Judaism and Christianity, nope.
Sounds like Russia, communist China, and Turkey. All oppressive regimes.
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