Comments on: Don’t Give Tax Dollars to Religious Schools

By: postsimian

postsimian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:07:12 +0000

TXatheist – Yikes, could you imagine how the market would control the curriculum? “We project a boom in manufacturing industries, so we’re going to drop biology and chemistry classes to create room for shop classes.” Imagine it! What use does big business have for philosophy, the arts or humanities? History? Forget about ethics courses, heh.

Gone would be the days where children aspire to be astronauts or doctors. I wouldn’t imagine there’d be much choice in an academic path when kids are turned into products to sell to other businesses. Imagine the dropout rate being dictated by how much they “scale back production.”

Or maybe I’m just a pessimist.

By: TXatheist

TXatheist — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:54:17 +0000

Private schools do no better and it’s just a way to fund religious schools. Secondly, privately run companies are about profit first and foremost. Children should be first, not stockholders concerning education.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:19 +0000

Using tax dollars to fund religious institutions is a blatant violation of separation of church and state.

I went to a Christian high school in North Carolina, where we learned such educational gems as: “There has never been a mutation that proved to beneficial to an organism.” (Thereby refuting evolution and natural selection.) -10th Grade Biology

I certainly don’t want my tax dollars going to waste funding this type of nonsense.

By: postsimian

postsimian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:54:34 +0000

I know how we can fund the fundies: tax churches! Now that would be a fair trade.

Edit — woot first!