Money intended to be used for educating children, is instead being used for…
Educating children.
If the dollars per child amount isn’t enough, raise taxes. It’s ridiculous to complain about not getting money for children you don’t have to teach.
This comment reeks of disingenuousness.
I’m 100% on board with separating church and state, and forbidding taxpayer funds to be used for religious indoctrination. But couching that intention in an argument about private schools stealing money from public schools is disingenuous.
Money meant for public schools is going to privately schools to indoctrinate children and maintain the beliefs that those who pay the bills want them to believe.
It’s a way to take power from government funded institutions and to channel that money into Christian nationalist training camps.
“religious institutions shouldn’t get taxpayer money to teach religion” is an exceptionally valid argument. But the meat of this article is about schools being funded by enrollment. They’re saying money is being taken away from public schools, and the schools are suffering.
What private schools, and worse- home schools, are allowed to teach and not teach, is a far cry from education.
Private schools can exist, but they shouldn’t get public funding if they are teaching religion, denying evolution, forgoing sex ed, and failing to meet basic educational standards.
That’s a great argument and I completely agree. You are addressing the actual problem.
Laughs in DeRolph.
ETA: If you’re not old like me or not tuned in to Ohio politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeRolph_v._State
TL;DR: In the late 90s the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the way Ohio funds its schools is unconstitutional. The Legislature effectively ignored the decision and we still have basically the same problems.
