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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lucky_limey who wrote (46565)	11/26/2017 8:16:20 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mannie Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358471

What pure balderdash. That is what the right wing wants to do and is a very bad idea. Public schools are conducted by democracy i.e. a school boards and competency tests and educational requirements. Private schools can be anything and if they are religious force kids to learn myths that are not proven by science and not secular. We have a separation of church and state for a reason. We have a public school system that is the bedrock of educating our children. If people don't want their kids to go there then they have to pay for them to go to a private school. That is not discriminating against them, that is what we have decided is best for the country by democratic means!. If we diverted public school money to private schools we weaken the public school system all around! We liberals know the religious right wants some of that money to indoctrinate their kids with a bunch of nonsense like the age of the earth being only 6,000 years old and denying evolution.. The religious right thinks Trump is fine and he is the most vulgar man imaginable and certainly should not be president, but the religious right doesn't see even something that simple e.g. The Huckabee's -lol. << I said "If a Mexican wants to send his kid to a Catholic School - then the Govt should not object on religious grounds." The govt demonstrates its objections on religious grounds by not releasing education funding. earmarked to that student.

To: lucky_limey who wrote (46565)	11/26/2017 8:28:00 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 358471

Nonsense. The money is supposed to be for public schools. Private schools, not just religious ones, don't qualify. Just like people who don't have children, or children within the right age range, don't qualify either. Nor do children who get into college early. Or dropouts. It really isn't hard to understand.

To: lucky_limey who wrote (46565)	11/26/2017 9:32:13 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 358471

BS. There is no such thing as "funds earmarked to that student". In fact this is precisely the issue that religious schools figured out how to work around the law. Private school tuition is not tax deductible, but charitable contributions to a Church are. So the Church sets up a school, and then encourages all members to donate regularly towards funding the school, but the funds are specifically to support the school, and CANNOT be earmarked for a given student. That is the key. Then when your family has kids of school age, they go for free. But only because they are a member of your church who has this indirect payment method. Of course, in practice its the families with kids in school who pay the most during those years, and then likely slack off when their kids aren't in school. This is a favorite tactic of evangelical Churches. Another VERY much abused tactic is for Church members to take annual vacations to exotic foreign shores, but as part of a "mission trip". Again, they funnel the $ for airfares, etc through the Church and its all tax deductible. Christians are wise as serpents.... The govt demonstrates its objections on religious grounds by not releasing education funding. earmarked to that student.