Father Heathen
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The lessen the burden of financing public schools.
How so?
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The lessen the burden of financing public schools.
Government has chosen to subsidize private schools to easeObviously. Public via tax. Private via their direct customers.
Students attending private schools don't require public school buildings & staff.How so?
Why?Answer my question.
Citation ****ing needed. Please demonstrate that schools 'don't change' when given adequate budget and supplies.
Why?
Students attending private schools don't require public school buildings & staff.
This means having fewer of those, thereby lowering the cost.
Ok;So your posts won't be regarded as worthless spam?
But if they're a private for profit business, what are their hands doing in my pockets? I'm not receiving any of their services in return.
Ok;
You want to know why your tax dollars should go to them.
OK
Do you not consider the education of our youth is important?
If you do, then wouldn't you want to have your tax dollars to go to a school that produces a better educated person?
All this tells me is that Chicago is not meeting its actual public funding needs. Shockingly, incredibly large volume cities with tens of thousands of kids need more funding than rural county schools. Chicago is the third largest school district in the nation.
Ok;
You want to know why your tax dollars should go to them.
OK
Do you not consider the education of our youth is important?
If you do, then wouldn't you want to have your tax dollars to go to a school that produces a better educated person?
Not sure where I stand on all of this, some of the language in the article was very American so I'll have to figure out what it means. But briefly;
This was about differences in funding access between religious private schools and non religious private schools. Doesn't change whether their hands are in your pocket.
Taxes pay for lots of services an individual tax payer doesn't use.
I'm kinda anti-private schools entirely, but I'm trying to work out what my thoughts are (if any) on this particular item.
Also math, science, etc.So it's cheaper for the tax payer to divert some of what they give toward religious indoctrination?
And you don't think our public institutions of higher learning do not have a political agenda that myself and other disagree with? Get serious.I would rather fix a broken system than fund a private for profit school that might also teach a political/religious agenda that I strongly disagree with.
So you don't have an issue with public institutions of higher learning that have an ati-American agenda?I wonder if the conservatives would still be fine with this if it turned out their tax money was going to a private Muslim school whose curriculum included antisemitic and anti-american material.
I understand that not everything I pay taxes for I use, but they go toward things society needs, so it's an investment into bettering a society I live in.
But private schools are also for profit businesses aimed at serving an exclusive clientele, such as the upper class, or toward a specific religion.
For example, I really don't like the idea that I might be buying the text books for some rich conservative christian family's brat that teach him evolution and global warming are liberal hoaxes, while those who run the schools are driving around in cars most of us would never be able to.
That's inaccurate.I tend to broaden it to 'rich family's brat'....
They are merely providing a service to the community and getting paid for that. To wit, they are being paid to provide a secular education to community children.But if they're a private for profit business, what are their hands doing in my pockets? I'm not receiving any of their services in return.