Posted on 07/02/2024 9:26:50 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Alaska’s Supreme Court justices on Friday reversed a Superior Court ruling that struck down key components of the state’s correspondence school program.
Nearly 23,000 homeschool students may continue to use their allotments of state education money to pay for private school tuition until the Anchorage Superior Court reconsiders the case.
The Supreme Court made its decision a day after oral arguments in an appeal of the ruling in State of Alaska, Department of Education and Early Development v. Alexander, in which plaintiffs argued that it is unconstitutional for public education money to be spent on private school tuition.
The justices explained that they issued a summary ruling quickly to avoid affecting thousands of students’ education and will complete a formal ruling later.
Supreme Court justices agreed with the state’s hired lawyer, Elbert Lin, that the lower court wrongly decided the state’s statute was unconstitutional in its entirety. They said state law could be preserved “because there are many constitutionally permissible uses of allotment funds.”
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The whole argument is based on the old saw of the religion in school nonsense.
I maintain that government schools are indoctrinating with their own brand of religion. Let’s call it garden variety paganism.
>> At the forefront of evil IMHO are teacher unions
Indeed... and also the whole educational-industrial complex.
It’s way bigger than most people realize.
>> I maintain that government schools are indoctrinating with their own brand of religion. Let’s call it garden variety paganism.
And I maintain... that you are absolutely correct.
“Paganism”, being a belief system that places high value on the individual, is arguably a good choice to label their brand of religion.
Yes, no religion (e.g., atheism/agnosticism) is a religion onto itself.
>> public education money
#ing commies believe the fruits of another’s labor belongs to them.
This is a great victory for parents and freedom. However the atheists and teachers unions will not stop. They’ve basically said this is procedural ruling, and they’re going to push it again at another angle. They won’t ever stop.
I just had a revelation, if anti-homosexuality is a religion, then homosexuality is also a religion.
So gay pride is essentially a religion that is being pushed by the government onto society. Which violates the 1st amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Well said. It’s sort of like: “the worst type of absolutism is relativism.”
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