Will public schools become faith based in the near future?

Question

With the ever growing influence of the religious right on policy, is it really an outlandish thought?

Answer 1

Not outlandish, but scary.

Like our schools don't make kids dumb enough as it is? Now we should give up giant swaths of science as well?

It's crap. All crap.

Answer 2

If you think this is about the religious right, think 'I am wrong.' You are looking at a wrongly placed synonym.* Please stand by while I try to dump a bucket of cold water on you. Based on faith and faith based are as different as bunny rabbit and hungry rattle snake. Both the religious right and the holy left are jammed in a matrix pod with Keanu Reeves on this one.

School worries? None if you know what the catch phrases of faith based and faith based initiatives are all about. These phrases are government tools, benchmarks for political think tanks, and program items for the United Nations. (This is not conspiracy stuff but serious population control measures)

Faith based is about converting churches, mosques, etc., and religious adherents of any faith, into service providers, food commodity distributors, and disaster support centers; with expanded communications backup for law enforcement, etc. and etc.

Washington is slowly passing its social service responsibility down the line to the non-profits. These non-profits have been built by tax payers who will now, by their free labors of "love" return the exemption in kind. Those tax payers who are not religious will still pay top dollar, as the government is always broke, get less service and quality and have no one to blame!

I hope you take some time to see the beauty of this plan. It is already well underway and think tanks are working on what else to do! (Don't forget Carter's Habitat for Humanity which is in this mix too). This all started years ago and while the religious right might cheer and the left complain; both are getting the shaft.

Read some of this stuff with an eye to final outcome. Read between the lines and view without political leanings. Read for the bottom line. You will find religious hierarcy, really big money, government (both parties) are in this guise together.

If you read it right the left should be cheering and the right should be making the complaints; at least for now. *But that is how easy mass controls are applied today. Controlling people is nothing more than the choice of the right synonym; or the wrong one properly placed. Faith based does both!

Schools in early American were based on faith. But that is history. Faith based is not the same. It is a concept to direct initiatives; and works regardless of how the sides being manipulated may feel. Outlandish or not, it don't matter.

Answer 3

Probably not there are many reasons for that. The Government does not want religion in there schools because that would make the country a certain religion. That is why schools with certains faith like Catholic Schools cost money because they do not want to be controlled by the Government. if the government paid for Catholic Schools, the schools would have to obey policies like "No Child left Behind" and would have to accept every student.

Answer 4

You're probably right, I see it going in that direction. If that happens, I will be home schooling my child. It is up to the parents to teach religion if they so choose, not the schools. The only way it would be fair is if they also teach things other than Christianity such as Buddhism or Paganism. Since we all know they won't do that, keep it out of the schools. We send them to school to learn to read and write and math, science, language arts etc., not religion.

Answer 5

you know, this false fear from both the religious and the non, about the other side gaining some kind of advantageous influence over government and school is just that-false.

the fact that people are wasting their time worrying about these things, is just what the government wants.
They enjoy keeping people worried about things like immigration, gay marriage, religion, atheism, and such, because the more the masses or preoccupied with these issues, they can not unify together and realize that they are being ripped off by ridiculous tax rates while the governments and corporations continue to sell us all down the river.

Answer 6

No, no, and again no! It is true the religious right has way too much power, but plenty of us are fighting back. I am especially counting on Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and on the integrity of the Supreme Court.

The First Amendment is our most precious heritage, next to the Constitutional structure itself. We MUST guard it from all encroachment, or we are no longer the United States of America.

It's like what they call "fairy chess." You can mess around and do anything you want with a chess board and pieces. But if you don't play by the rules, you are not playing chess. You're doing something else, and it is called "fairy chess" to distinguish it.

If we do not stick to the Constitution, we are not being the United States of America.

Answer 7

Will public schools become faith based...? No. Once the wacko right-wing Bushies are gone in '09, the Republic shall become itself again, a democracy, and the right-wing religious bigots, such as the Fundies who strut around R&S, will possess less and less influence on Washington until it reaches zero.

Answer 8

I take it you are talking about the good ol USA. Well the USA already has by FAR and AWAY the worst schools in all of the industrial nations why not? Americans already fail miserably in science and world history, so why not dumb them down even further with that religious rubbish?

Answer 9

Hopefully not. I will never accept it and neither should any one else. There is no place for public faith based education. Not only would it be ludicrous, but it would be in direct conflict with separation of church and state. I doubt it will every come to that though. Also keep in mind that the religious right is trying to control sex education and has already failed miserably at it.

You must keep in mind that Christianity is not the only religion. Would you want Muslim faith based schools? I would be very surprised if you did. It is extremely selfish to believe that your beliefs should be taught to everyone.

Answer 10

There's no growing influence of the religious right. There's only growing fear and greater lying about belief on the part of the politicians. Look at their lives, not their words.

Answer 11

Oh man, I hope not.
Religious schools tend to segregate and turn out the biggest bigots.

If you can be side by side in a secular environment, you have no reason to hate once you enter a religious one. If you want your child to have a religious education, teach them yourself, after school. (I don't believe in homeschooling, I feel it leaves them unprepared for the real world).