Santorum: Parents should run schools

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When right-wingers like santorum talk about 'leting parents run schools rather than washington', they mean basically two things:

1) let local school districts flout the constitution by imposing their own sectarian religious views as part of public school curiculum ('inteligent design' aka creationism,      group christian prayer in class and school functions, teaching Christianity' supremacy, etc).

Prayer existed in public schools right up the sixties. While the education kids received in the fifties might have been offensive to the Supreme Court, that is not to say that public schools in the fifties produced inferior students. Now, you, like the Supreme Court, might not like prayer in school, or you might despise Christianity, but, banning the J-word from schools is a very weak justification for federal control of education. Surely, you have better reasons for taking away from parents the fundamental right to have a say in the upbringing of their own children?

Nor, do have any answer to the objection that such abuses could be foisted upon the entire nation by federal bureaucrats, the differencing being such horrors would be uniform across the nation rather than sporadic.

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This is nonsense. The per pupil support for public schools will remain the same, or increase. The objection of the teacher's union is that more teachers will be private employees and fewer government employees.

That's the problem with the Democratic position on education in a nutshell: they emphasize what is best for the government employees in the system. The Republican approach emphasizes what is best for children.

Separation of church and state. Look it up, it's in that Constitution you love to talk about.

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For the government to opt for atheism is as much an establishment of religion as the converse.

No. No. No.

Nothing is not something. Likewise, no religion is not a religion.

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For the government to opt for atheism is as much an establishment of religion as the converse.

No. No. No.

Nothing is not something. Likewise, no religion is not a religion.

I find it interesting that this, which is arguable, is your problem with Bob's comment, not the inarguable fact that the government has not 'opted for atheism' in public education.

Well yeah, that too.