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Attack on religion continues

So $180,000 isn't enough money for the government to teach a kid to read. You believe there needs to be much greater spending, before we should expect any results, correct?
$180,000 for 12 years of education is not really that much. Beverly Hills spends 22,000 per year per student, for a total of $264, 000 and they don't have even a fraction of hurdles to overcome that detroit schools do.

It is a fact that what we are doing in Detroit isn't working.

Investment needs to be made not just in education but in helping solve other problems that hinder learning as well.
 
I presume you don't have kids, or have kids that went to a private school and have no clue about public education?
 
I've attended both. I have relatives and friends in both private and public education at all levels. Even without that you don't have to stray too far from current events to see the shittiness of public schools.


I presume you don't have kids, or have kids that went to a private school and have no clue about public education?
 
Stupid on so many levels.
 
It is absolutely not in the interest of a person with no kids to pay to educate other people's kids. Basically you are saying "the common interest before self-interest" which is collectivist Nazi vomit.
Holy crap. Is it past your bed time?
 
Your grandmother wasn't allowed to open a bank account without her husband's permission.
Couldn't tell you because the police have not been defunded.
There was Camden, NJ which dissolved its police force and started over with pretty good results. This was way back in 2013, and was done to end all sorts of corruption which included police planting evidence on people.
 
The US spends more than any other country on just about everything.
 
But from the report it's not even clear that hiring teachers is the issue. Presumably Catholic schools are allowed to require that teachers be practising Catholics.
This report seems to be deliberately misleading.

They are not.

Most catholic schools have lay teachers (non-Catholic) teachers.

If the Catholic church tries to go that route, they can be taxed on their income.
 
Biased fact checkers mean nothing.
Claiming everything you don't like is biased, without checking yourself, is putting your head in the sand.

All kinds of alternate realities can be created with simple denial. The extreme denial of "everybody's lying" has traditionally been a rhetorical device used for effect, but over the last several years, it has actually been proposed as a serious argument.
 
Government run schools produce educated adults in every country that out-performs the US on PISA scores. Just because you can't do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
We have tried for profit private (charter) schools and they have been an unmitigated disaster of corruption and inefficacy because that for-profit wants to create more profit with zero accountability.



 
$180,000 for 12 years of education is not really that much.

It's an incredible amount if the "education" produces an illiterate, innumerate adult.

Beverly Hills spends 22,000 per year per student, for a total of $264, 000 and they don't have even a fraction of hurdles to overcome that detroit schools do.

It is a fact that what we are doing in Detroit isn't working.

My guess is there are similar results in every liberal shithole city across the country. Government-run schools are creating an enormous, permanent, underclass, and you're fine with it, as long as they continue to vote Democrat.

Investment needs to be made not just in education but in helping solve other problems that hinder learning as well.
 
Religion should be kept out of the classroom. Why should it matter who is doing the teaching?
Keeping religion out of the classroom of a non-secular school, based in religious principles is not a winning argument in a country that counts Freedom of Religious as one of its bedrock principles.

If you can teach Sunday school for example, you can teach religious principles Monday through Saturday in a school based on religious principles.

This is sort of a neat thread. Its a good example for how close the Far Left and the Far Right are to each other.
 
My guess is there are similar results in every liberal shithole city across the country. Government-run schools are creating an enormous, permanent, underclass, and you're fine with it, as long as they continue to vote Democrat.
Enormous permanent underclasses are the norm throughout history and around the world.

Public education is the very thing that ended the permanent underclass.

You've got it ass backwards.

And public education doesn't just exist in blue cities it exits in red rural areas too, and everywhere in between.

Yes most democratic voters went to public schools, but so did most Republican voters.

Your implication that public schools make people democrats is utter nonsense.
 

We had long ago learned the folly of religions and that mistake by our founders .
 
We had long ago learned the folly of religions and that mistake by our founders .
Ah-huh...ready to take up arms.....start a civil war over it. It is what it is. If you don't like it I would recommend a different country. You are not going to male any headway here with that argument.

And this is coming from me...the guy that left organized religion, Catholicism and is never going back to any organized religion.
 
Then it's only fair that the government pay for religious schools.

You can't have it both ways. If atheists don't want to pay for religious schools, then Christians shouldn't have to pay for secular schools.
Secularity isn't the absence of religion. It's the prohibition of state investment in and encouragement of doctrine and creed. In the case of parochial schools, the problem isn't necessarily tax contributions, but rather the receipt of those subsidies but a non-compliance with their conditions. They could just refuse the lucre.

But, I expect even radcappers could figure that bit out.
 

We need to admit our mistakes and get religion in the closet where it belongs.
 
The case identified in the OP is clearly going to go through the Appellate Court and up to the SC.
 
We need to admit our mistakes and get religion in the closet where it belongs.
Good luck......don't expect me to join you one the battlements for your crusade.

Like I said earlier, there appears to be people on the Left as interested in Civil War as some on the Right.
 
I don't see any issues in the report cited in the original post that relates to church teachings. Do you?
 
Perhaps it's been asked already, but please cite me the part of the law in question where it requires that the school not teach catholic doctrine. Please be specific. The devil is in the details when you preemptively file suit, or more specifically, when some far right christian group hires attorneys to file suit preemptively on your behalf.
 
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