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So the agnostics, atheists, Jews, Muslims, Hindu, et al, will be subjected to a religion they do not believe in? So much for the First Amendment which states that the federal government “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (the latter referencing that every individual has the right on their own, if they wish, to read a bible or say a silent prayer without any other individual being coerced to do the same).
No, the school in question is a charter school.
And just how is that different than kids being taught evolution is how the world began, it’s okay to murder unborn babies, be transgender, and narrow minded if you believe in the Bible and other religious things? The world says to not be narrow minded. Until you mention Christianity. And then you have no rights. So, you are not supposed to be narrow minded unless it involves religion? It’s okay to call girls boys and kill unborn babies but to it’s not ok to to discuss right and wrong? Why do thing this country is in the mess it’s in?
I’m not sure how it being a charter school makes a difference. It is a Roman Catholic school. While it may not require membership in the Catholic faith to enroll, it will focus its curriculum around religous principles and beliefs.
Roman Catholics, in particular, need to be very concerned about this. While Roman Catholocism is the largest single Christian denomination in the world, Protestant denominations combined still outnumber Catholics, especially in the US.
This is such a clear violation of the First Amendment, it can not be excused or permitted, especially by a Supreme Court bench made up of a super- majority (six members) of Roman Catholics. This will lead an already divided country back to the days before Brown vs. Board of Education, as religious organizations will sort out admitted students based on religion, and eventually race. There are very few African American Mormons, so a Mormon school would basicially be segregated. As would many other Protestant churches. We’ve seen this movie…in the aftermath of Brown. Public schools open only to white students. Only slowly, grudginly, opened to African American students. Now it will just be dressed up under the veil of religion, and a tortured reading of the First Amendment, one that flies in the face of the Founding Fathers to whom Alito and Thomas pledge their fealty, that somehow government has a duty to fund religious organizations because it funds non-religious organizations.
I used to say that eventually folks will figure out that the Republican Party wants to roll America back to after the passing of the 18th Amendment in every significant way.
Beginning to think I’m wrong. I think the aim has become going back to after the 12th.
It’s a choice to attend a charter school. I’m not arguing it should be publicly funded, but Catholicism isn’t forced on anyone attending it. And no one should be shocked that a Catholic school teaches Catholic doctrine and values.
Could this lead to publicly funded CULT schools claiming to be religious ? And who decides what is or is not a religion based school.
Why do you think we are in the mess we are in? We took God out, told people they are nothing, to think of themselves, that there is no after life and therefore no hope. No wonder we have so many addictions, crimes, and trying to anesthetize themselves.
If I believed the above, I wouldn’t have any hope either!
It’s time parents and kids have a choice what schools they go to and what they are taught. Instead of the worlds values being crammed down their throat by the public school. We’ve been paying for this nonsense and lies for years. What’s wrong with being able to send our kids where the truth will be taught?
Carl, those are failures of the local church and the household, not the local schools.
Parents have had choice for years now. You can transfer within any public school in Indiana. Those who wanted to send their kids to private religious schools could do so, and did.
I no more want taxpayer dollars spent on my faith than I would on schools teaching faiths I disagree with.
The kids are not learning a damn thing in the vast majority of the public schools in this country as they are nothing more than tax payer funded day care center, that conduct whacked out left wing social experiments on young and influential minds! Lets abandon ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS….along with the Department of Education! Let the free market prevail as far as education is concerned…I bet if it did – that would pretty much be the end of the whacked out left wing indoctrination agenda !! :-).
If you had kids, what are their ages and what was the last year they were in school?
I pulled my kids out of a local private Christian school because they refused to treat males and females equally and did not believe learning disabilities were a thing. My kids have done FAR better in local public schools, which are about to be defunded by the state of Indiana. And I say that as a local Catholic school alum myself.
If you truly wanted the free market to fix education, you’d also be suggesting that we should immediately shut down Social Security and Medicare and let the free market fix the problems in both for today’s senior citizens. Yet none of the folks advocating this for education are. I wonder why?
As a lifelong catholic and catholic school alum – PLEASE don’t! you will destroy both the public school system and the catholic school system.
It would be catastrophic for both.
John, that’s the point.
This case was just on the evening news and a couple things kinda surprised me:
1. It’s a virtual school. I know, not much to do with the issue, but interesting nonetheless.
2. The Republican attorney general of Oklahoma is who filed the case to stop the school from going forward.
Also, if taxpayers are forced to support a government funded Catholic school, shouldn’t there also be requirements to have Hindu, Muslim, Protestant, Jewish, etc…. government funded schools?
Joe B…..you get it!!! And John A. What’s so great about the Catholic School System? That systems has equal issues as the public school system but they just get covered up…and hidden from plain sight.
But oh wait, I forgot – Northside Indianapolis Catholics rule the world! Don’t they?
Whoever pays the piper calls the tune. Any faith-based organization should think long and hard before becoming embroiled with the government. The new income stream will come with strings attached.