re: #521 darthstar

In my experience, parochial schools do not exclude on the basis of religion. They teach (their) religion as a part of the curriculum, but they allow children of any religion to attend. It’s not a matter of exclusion, but the teaching of religion, that makes a voucher system unconstitutional.

I don’t think they can be separated. Hypothetical: the Muslim school does not admit non-Muslim kids. Why should the LDS family have to pay for the LDS kids’ education in a school that doesn’t allow them?

I went to a parochial school that did exclude/discriminate on the basis of religious sect - no Catholics allowed. If I were a Catholic parent who had to pay for that via vouchers I would be PISSED.

And the point that’s being ignored, or missed anyway, is that vouchers will inevitably take funding away from schools in low-income neighborhoods due to their increased transient population.

Yeah, that is a whole other ball of wax. Imo, that’s the entire point of vouchers, which is to deplete the public schools, then point to them and claim “seeee!!!!! public schools don’t werrrrrk!!”

Same thing happened with idiotic busing: choose the one “solution” you know won’t work and cause even more rancor and class/race/status resentments.

After 2011, we can all now blame public school teachers and union librarians for why the public sector should be reviled and hated. e_e