Conservatives want religion in the public schools. Why not just start more religous private schools?

Question

This is what the Catholics did years ago. Why not do it again, on a massive scale, with many Protestant denominations?

Answer 1

The Catholic church has ruined any chance of resurrecting the idea of private schools, not to mention that the average joe like me who would like to put their kids into private school can't even come close to affording it. I tried it and just can't afford it. I was raised catholic, and the amount of money my family put into the collection plate every week would astound you, and for that dedication for over 20 years, we get high tuition at these schools. Plus, don't forget the priest scandals. This has forced many to remove their children. I remember a time when George Bush said he'd provide vouchers to families, but as I understand it only the city of Washington D.C. has gotten them. Sound a little biased? What happened to no child left behind? I am all for religious schooling. My kids at regular public school are being pushed at an overwhelming rate to learn things that they are not ready for because the U.S. wants to produce more intelligent kids like those in China. Well, they are only hurting our kids and education reform is necessary in the immediate future or our kids are going to pay the price even more.

Answer 2

The masses can't afford private schools. Only the wealthy can. Public education is taking massive tax dollars from all citizens, and they have no way of getting those tax dollars back to pay for private education in a religious institution. So they are forced to send their kids to public school, where religion is banned completely.

That is why school vouchers would solve both problems. It would keep religion out of public schools, because the religious in our country could simply use their voucher to pay for the child's education at a private school.

It would also improve our public schools by forcing the administrations and teachers to improve the performance or risk losing their jobs. That is what occurs in all other industries, and it seems to produce excellence. Japanese cars are dominating the market because American car workers don't produce as good of a product. The same should occur in education.

Answer 3

Creating a school is a very expensive proposition. The Catholic church has plenty of funds, and is a well-organized machine. The other churches are generally smaller and more individualistic.

The flip side of this is why, in a country that is so overwhelmingly Christian, the government would even consider limiting the ability to teach Christianity in its schools? Taxes come from the people, the representatives are elected citizens, and the government is supposed to support the will of the majority, so where did the cart fall off the track?

Answer 4

Good point but your just off a bit.

Conservatives as a whole (imo) do not want religion in the public schools. What we don't want is the ability of the public school systems to tell our children that they are blindly stupid for their beliefs and push aethism on them. That is quite frankly the issue.

I as a strong conservative would NEVER accept a school that forced any child to be indoctrinated into any religion on the public dime (my religion or anyones). But, what I can't stand is the corporate education system as a whole that believes they are at war with the religious community so they indoctrinate their aethist creed at every step of the way.

Why not just teach them the facts and not try to indoctrinate them into aethism? That's fair they can't prove their is not a God so why teach it?

Answer 5

Whoa, bucky. Where do you get the idea that all conservatives, or even most conservatives, want religion in public schools?

1. With the poor job done in other subjects, why would they want the teachers to screw up religion, too?

2. Not all of us, not most of us, believe that creationism or intelligent design belong in a public school, unless it is in a religion class; but definitely not in a science class. The only scientific theory of how we got here is the theory of evolution. Period.

Now, personally, I believe that I was created in God's image, but because I'm not so egotistical to believe that I understand God's plans or His method of creating me, I'm not going to argue about what method He used. It's beyond my understanding, it's beyond everybody's understanding.

Oh, and if we want private schools, can I use the money that's being sent to the public schools for my kids? Why should I pay for a service I won't use?

Answer 6

There won't be religion in public schools...it wouldn't fly. Seperation of church and state. There isn't enough money in the first place for classes in every school to cover every religion at that school or to hire teachers to teach the class.
I agree with you. Theres already a lot of private religious schools.
So what if its expensive? If you want your kid learning religion at school, pay for it. Otherwise, go to church. Church is free. Learn about religion at church.

Derderder.

Answer 7

They don't want private religious schools, they want their religion taught in the public schools at government expense.
It's almost impossible for three religions to agree on wording for the ten commandments, for instance, but almost all religions claim to have the "only truth" and want you to follow their teachings.
Read about the Taliban, you'll see what religion as government means. And why we revere a seperation between religion and government.

Answer 8

Private schools are too expensive for the majority of the population.

Answer 9

Rural children who can only meet each other in school, should be able to have an after school club. I really can't see who that hurts. The Muslims and any other group should be able to as well. As long as they aren't hurting anyone, it only promotes community involvement.

Answer 10

Great idea. So we get to pay to educate YOUR children and OUR children.

Nice. Thanks.

No one that I know is advocating "religion" in the public schools. If you are referring to the origin debate, then just say so.

I say take all origin study out of grades K-10 altogether.

Just teach reading, writing, math, social studies and biology minus origin theory. Really not so amazing.