Students, Legal Groups Stand Against Anti-Religious Court Order

Tom2 »

Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:59 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Alockslee may not have heard that the SCOTUS fully incorporated as applicable to the states, the 1st, 4th and 6th Amendments. Further, the 5th was incorporated except for clause guaranteeing criminal prosecution only on a grand jury indictment. The 8th was incorporated with respect to the protection against "cruel and unusual punishments," but not on "excessive fines" and "excessive bail" protections. Intolerant attitudes are welcome because they speed the long trip to privatization of this mess. It's a bad idea for government to indoctrinate its children.

Students, Legal Groups Stand Against Anti-Religious Court Order

Tom2 »

Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:55 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Plano West Senior High School has the subject weight room but that's just an example. They also have luxuries for many extracurricular programs. The band spend $20,000 on steel drums and the biology students are assigned whole pigs to dissect. My point is recipients of such opulent programs should pay their own way. I love football but believe the stadiums should be available to the entire community because the entire community paid for them. And on the flip side, the community should choose whether or not to fund the stadiums -- they all have them you know. Headware is forbidden but hijabs are overlooked while Kwanza caps are not.

Here in Texas, most schools have JROTC because we respect the military. Some communities on the east and west coasts have ejected the programs. Private schools on a scale equivalent to current government schools, would provide choices for parents. If they prefer Christian devotionals, or not, they have a choice. They'd have band, sports, military, homosexual, dance, aviation, science -- whatever -- choices. Private schools would realize economies of specialization and salaries would be competitive instead of fixed by the union. Government needs to govern and leave education to free enterprise. I'd recommend private industry be permitted to establish schools parallel to government schools, funded by taxes from refunded to participating parents. In time, I believe we can recover from the current government school mess.

Students, Legal Groups Stand Against Anti-Religious Court Order

Tom2 »

Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:33 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 3

Haven't we all, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Druids, et al., had enough of this ineffective government education. I use the term education loosely because I've seen our system morph from small publicly funded schools into the grotesque behemoths of government indoctrination centers that are now bankrupting us. I for one am fed up with the million-dollar weight rooms available to footballers only; and the lavishly priced steel drums for the band; and the travel budgets that dwarf most businesses.

Mr. President, privatize this system! Privatization will eliminate this ridiculous "separation" issue forever. And it also will eliminate problems with violence, drugs, politics, military, evolution, intelligent design, illegal aliens, curricula, text book accuracy and on and on. And the best of it is we'll have many choices from a new industry that earns profits for America. It's a simple choice -- expensive government indoctrination or economical education from private industry.