<p>The author of the article cited some extreme examples of non-secular schools to stir up indignation. I wish the author had half as much indignation for the propensity of failing local public schools to which poor families are forced to send their kids. </p>
<p>I’ve volunteered as a tutor at an inner city public school and will attest to the absolutely abyssmal state of things. These failing schools get public money regardless of their performance, and the parents have NO CHOICE but to send their kids there due to their lack of economic means.</p>
<p>I say “so what?” if some of the schools that receive voucher money are religious schools-- St. Pauls School makes their kids attend chapel, and I think most posters wouldn’t get all upset if their kid had to be educated under conditions like that. </p>
<p>LET THE PARENTS DECIDE, just as we BS parents have decided where we want our kids and our educational funds to go. I send my kid to a secular BS, but I have no more heartburn over parents sending their kids to a religious school with state taxpayer funded vouchers, than I do w U.S. taxpayer money funding Veteran’s scholarships and Pell Grants for college students to attend Catholic University or Brigham Young, provided the parents made that choice without gov’t coercion.</p>
<p>As for the crack-pot religious schools cited by the author, how many parents would really CHOOSE such schools?</p>