rob@dadla.UUCP (Rob Vetter) (09/18/86)
>> (Though I'm against the state providing bussing for >>any private/parochial school). > >Which is just an inconsistent American silliness. Why not terminate >all grants and funding to private/parochial colleges and universities? Grants to colleges and universities are idealy to pay for a service rendered to the grant giver. If the U.S. goverment wants to build a better bomb, or sees that artificial heart research can benefit the public, they give the college a grant. While funding for bussing provides such a service, extending the funding to private schools makes little sense. Bus service to public schools already exists. Routes are usually placed convieniently for students and schools. Special bussing to private schools places an extra burden on the public by creating more, probably rundundant, and possibly unnecessarilily long routes. In any case, not the same as "services" provided for in exchange for grants. -- Rob Vetter (503) 629-1044 [ihnp4, ucbvax, decvax, uw-beaver]!tektronix!dadla!rob "Waste is a terrible thing to mind" - NRC (Well, they COULD have said it)
rob@dadla.UUCP (Rob Vetter) (09/18/86)
In article <1541@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes: > >What the public schools need is a little competition provided on an equal >footing! And this means *more* money to private schools of all sorts and >not less, with standardized competency and grade promotion tests *not* >designed or administered by public school officials. A voucher system with >the public school cost being the voucher amount, and other schools free to >charge more (with an income-based surcharge *back* to the voucher fund) is >just what we need. Are you saying that a major grocery chain (read private school - they're the ones with the money) should get tax breaks in order to give the corner mom&pop store (read poor public school system) a little better competition ? Look at the cost of education in the public school system (per student) compared to what you pay for private education. Double the tax base and I'll bet public schools still have trouble competing. -- Rob Vetter (503) 629-1044 [ihnp4, ucbvax, decvax, uw-beaver]!tektronix!dadla!rob "Waste is a terrible thing to mind" - NRC (Well, they COULD have said it)
ixl9261@ritcv.UUCP (Ilia Levi) (09/30/86)
This is one of the best reasons for the separation of the Church and State. The state should not provide bus transportation, lunches or anything else to the religious schools or organizations. Not because the state is against religion, but because it is the only way of not offending many people. And the government is not in the business of ofending the law abiding citizens. If there is as much separation of the Church and State, then each group can make their own rules, as long they are not too far off the mainstream of society, and live and let live. Otherwise you will see the hassidim pissed off at the state for providing the busses with the female drivers, and orthodox Jews in Israel forcing the rest of the population not have the bus service on the Shabat.