You have pointed out elsewhere that Florida has three different voucher programs. Can you provide me with any pointers of how to find out more about these? My son will be starting school before I know it.
Posted on 06/27/2002 7:32:14 AM PDT by RCW2001
(06-27) 07:30 PDT (AP) -- ^Supreme Court gives go-ahead for school vouchers, lowers wall between church and state= WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Constitution allows public money to underwrite tuition at religious schools as long as parents have a choice among a range of religious and secular schools, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The 5-4 ruling led by the court's conservative majority lowers the figurative wall separating church and state and clears a constitutional cloud from school vouchers, a divisive education idea dear to political conservatives and championed by President Bush. Opponents call vouchers a fraud meant to siphon tax money from struggling public schools.
This makes absolutely no sense. Right now, those who wanted to explore other options had to pay TWICE for their child's education. In fact, it is the public school system that demands that those who do not even HAVE children pay for the education of others. The private schools are the option that has people only paying for their own kids.
How is this decision "getting someone else to pay for it" any different than the current system? The parents finally have a CHOICE about where their child is sent, without having to pay for the same product twice. That is a just decision.
Wanna bet? They already do that with college student loans. The money is given to the student, but it can be used only at colleges that accept federal dictates.
That's why some schools, such as Bob Jones, Grove City, and Hillsdale will not accept any tuition money that came from the federal government. It always has strings attached.
We must. And please hear me out. Many here have pointed out the obvious reasons to support Bush i.e., importance of judicial appointments, Reagan's "liberal" programs, and the ever popular 'the alternative is much worse'.
Before we get any major changes we all here desire, the paramount objective is and should be returning the three branches of government to their original configuration.
The congressional liberals, unable to enact their agenda through proper constitutional proccesses, have corrupted the judicial branch by filling the courts with judges who legislate from the bench. They seem to neither realize or care that they have eroded the powers of their own branch.
Bush seems to understand the way the separation of powers has been usurped and has been fighting quietly for its proper reconstruction. From his defiance of congress regarding information and access to executive branch personnel to his repeated callings for judges who interpret the constitution literally.
Before you reply that "when Clinton refused to turn over...", remember that that was to cover his (and Hillary's) own sorry behind. And although I am still steaming over his signing of the odius CFR bill, I wish to believe that he is our best hope in restoring the rebuilding the framework of our beloved land.
These ditsy judges have handed him and the Pubs a cudgel to beat the libs with their own lunacy. Let's all pitch in and take a whack at them instead of each other for a change.
They must be having full-blown, mouth-foaming, rabid, spaz attacks right now. Like the demon in The Exoricst.
You have pointed out elsewhere that Florida has three different voucher programs. Can you provide me with any pointers of how to find out more about these? My son will be starting school before I know it.
I don't think vouchers in and of themselves will do anything to improve public schools, because they offer no incentive for the schools to address the actual roots of the problem.
IMHO the real difficulty with public schools has to do with the advent "Education Degrees," whereby prospective teachers major in teaching, rather than in some real subject.
As a result, the teachers tend not to know anything of substance, and are forced to rely on teaching processes. The teachers have no depth of knowlege, and are thus unable to provide perspective or alternative approaches to the topic.
Schools, and of course the NEA, perpetuate this problem by requiring that incoming teachers have jumped through all of the teaching hoops; whereas the subject-matter hoops seem often not to matter at all.
Oh Lancey...please tell me you don't subscribe the Courier Times ! We cancelled that one ages ago--and they still call us every other month or so asking if we want to renew -- I tell them the same thing each time...we don't agree with the liberal slant of your paper, esp. concerning the middle east and politics and we will not renew until there is a real change-- they meekly thank me and hang up--it's great fun !!
Take it in steps. Demonize political correctness. You should do this at every opportunity anyway. Then identify the press as politically correct, using examples that your intended audience are sympathetic to. You can pick almost any topic under the sun and show how political correctness ruins it.
I guess my question is, "How can I start my son in a local private Christian school using vouchers, without dealing with the public schools at all"? My boy is not disabled, we're not "underpriviliged" (read, "I bust my arse to earn a living for my family"), and not a "minority", so where does that leave us?
That is exactly the same argument the NEA uses.
In other words, public interest should be a determining factor in government/religion issues?
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