If it is illegal for a child to not attend public school and it teaches something against that child's ....

Question

religion isn't that a breaking of the seperation of Church and state being the state cannot interfere with the Church? Why doesn't the church just start its own schools that runs study without religion and do away with state schools? They could after that send them to cheap Christian colleges and thus become smarter and better educated the the dumb down system we have today eventually causing Christians to be more successful in businesses and other things because they actualy spend time learning stuff worth while!

Somebody said they were behind in education okay. Behind secular education maybe.

by standards of society maybe, so no my argument isn't false you pret!

Answer 1

Please note that the "separation of church and state" is not found in the Constitution of in a single law in the United States. It comes from a letter that T Jefferson wrote to a baptist minister explaining his beliefs about religion.

The idea of "separation of church and state", as stated by Jefferson, was that the government can not force you to do something that is against your religion nor keep you from practicing your religion. This idea is supported by the Constitution when it forbids the government from prohibiting the "free exercise of religion".

So the courts have consistently held that it is legal for a parent to seek alternative education - such as a private school, or to home school. Each state is permitted to set its own rules about what a child must receive in the way of education to graduate. Whether in public school, private school, or home schooled, they are required to come the same number of credits in math, English, social studies, science, etc. Most states also require a class in their state's history and government.

Studied have shown that private schooled and home schooled children perform better in college then public schooled children. The winners of the National Spelling Bee for four of the last five years have been home schooled children. (The fifth year was a private church schooled child). Same for the national geography, history and (yes even) science "bees". Home schooled and private church schooled children do better then the public schooled children.

The major universe for which I use to work actively recruited home schooled and private church schooled child. They were better students, and usually better mannered and moraled then the public school students.

Most major college also offer college credit to children who are home schooled. They can earn both high school and college credits at the same time, and often waver the first 2-4 semesters of college.

Answer 2

Nice,you come on here with a question and if we disagree with you then we are scum.Will here we go.We did not invite any of the illegal family here and Im sure that the country they came from does in some way have education for their citizens.Most illegals are using their kids in just this way.Oh the wonderful Americans they are so nice to illegals kids, and anchor babies if only we all get there we will have it made.Remember this when you are thinking about this, these parents put their kids in this situation and they and only they should be the one to right the wrong, and should be deported with their kids.So no my grand kids shouldn't have a 30 minuet class and 10 mins of it is explaining to the kids that are Americans or has learned our language and the next 20 mins be used helping those that don't understand English at all.Why are my tax dollars being used to teach my grand kids only 10 mins per class.You can bet if we went to say Mexico and expected this we wouldn't get it and most likely be left behind.But you people expect it from us.Funny how this is only expected from the hispanic community.

Answer 3

"If it is illegal for a child to not attend public school and it teaches something against that child's ....
religion isn't that a breaking of the seperation of Church and state being the state cannot interfere with the Church? "

Nope. There's nothing in the concept of religious freedom or in the letter of the law with respect to freedom of religion that says that schools have to avoid all controversy.

Don't be so PC.

It would be wrong for public schools to teach "Christianity is wrong", but obviously since the schools are there for the purposes of teaching things, they can't be asked to avoid teaching things just because some people are offended by them for religious reasons.

Furthermore, it's not illegal for a child to not attend public school. I attended a private Lutheran school for nine years - my entire grade school education. Lots of people do.

Answer 4

Yes, somehow the "separation of church and state" got turned around. ( there no mention of this quote in the founding documents ) But the intention of the founders was to keep government out of our schools. The churches and the people have every right to expect that what they want their children to be taught is what they should be taught.

Btw, The NEA dictates what is taught in our public schools which should never have been allowed to happen.

Also, btw, if most of the people in a local school district pay most of the taxes to run those schools, ( they do ), then they should be able to decide what is taught in those schools. Why should our government and the NEA control our schools to begin with? Why should any taxpayer have to pay for a private school ?

Answer 5

Its not illegal.

I attended Christians schools my whole life, other kids are home schooled, I wasn't required to attend public schools.

Your argument is false.

As a result of my Christian education, I have been forced to re-learn biology, and science. This was alot of work, but well worth the effort.

Your contention that Christians schools and Colleges are more succesful at creating smarter people and better businessmen isn't supported by the facts either.

I found that after leaving Christian University, I was actually behind many of my peers in the workplace. I succeeded because, I was forced to actively learn what I was missing. SO in a sense my lack of education, created by my attendance in Christians schools forced me to succeed on my own, but it definitely put me at an initial disadvantage.

Answer 6

No. The child is required to have SOME schooling of some sort. That does NOT need to be a public schools, however.

The parents are required to arrange something.

I think we can all agree that requiring a minimal education can only be a good thing for the children in question.

Answer 7

It is one thing to teach ABOUT something that does not follow a child's religion and another to PREACH religious ideas in schools. We have to be careful to remember that distinction. For a publicly funded organization to promote any religion is for the government to promote that religion, violating the First Amendment.

It is certainly an option for religions to create their own schools where religious ideas can be preached.

Answer 8

Its not illegal if you put the child in Christian school or home teach. If you home school you must have a curriculum, actually teach and keep records.

Answer 9

Uh are you living in a cave on a mountain in Montana???

Christian schools exist...they are expensive...and they do not teach children how to socialize with other people as effectively as public schools...and there aren't many religious schools at any level that most people can afford...you're promoting class elitism...

Answer 10

A child does not have to attend a public school. There are private schools and homeschooling.
Churches do have their own schools.
The rest of it just makes no sense.