Your Opinion on School Prayer

[J.R. Brown]

The bottom line is that you don't understand the hardships some families have to go through. The rich may be taxed more but they'll never have to endure anything the lower class does. Eliminating public schools can only hurt people in the long run.

Their have been times when my family has had barely enough money to pay the mortgage on our house and pay the car payments and provide food for us. Now that I'm not living there providing food is probably a lot easier. I'm not sure how much my parents got back after taxes, but it sure as hell wasn't enough to keep them from going into bankruptcy. Most of that probably had a lot to do with paying for my father's cancer treatment, but that's a different issue.

Basically, I think adding 500-1,000 dollars in tuition for me and by sister wouldn't have helped any, and those rough estimates are pretty generous even without federally funded education. I'm pretty sure we would have had to move out of our home to something smaller. While the rich in this country are usually unaffected by their taxes.

[TheresNoMoney]

At any rate, I'm perfectly fine with prayer in school as long as it's not organized prayer sponsored by a school employee.

I agree completely.

[Moooooo]

I support the teaching of some Christian principles/ideas in the public school system. 

[ian]

Against it, but support the "moment of silence".

[A18]

Abolish public schools and give out vouchers.

[J.R. Brown]

Abolish public schools and give out vouchers.

If no one is going to take the initiative to reform our public school system then that is probably the best solution.

[phk]

Any religous activity on a public school campus should be completely voluntary.

Pledge should be voluntary too.

[Bono]

You are not being very sympathetic to the people who don't have access to the working and lower class in this country. The tax cuts that Bush has put in place benefits the very rich first then works its way down. Most of the money saved by cutting the federal funding of education won't even reach the families who really need it. We need an education system in this county that rivals the private institutions or are even better, and that is attainable to anybody, no matter how economically advantaged or disadvantaged you may be.

Do you know that before 1850, when Massachusets became the first state to institute public schooling, as a ways to "integrate" the Irish, the literacy rate there was of 99%?

[J.R. Brown]

You are not being very sympathetic to the people who don't have access to the working and lower class in this country. The tax cuts that Bush has put in place benefits the very rich first then works its way down. Most of the money saved by cutting the federal funding of education won't even reach the families who really need it. We need an education system in this county that rivals the private institutions or are even better, and that is attainable to anybody, no matter how economically advantaged or disadvantaged you may be.

Do you know that before 1850, when Massachusets became the first state to institute public schooling, as a ways to "integrate" the Irish, the literacy rate there was of 99%?

Literacy rate-1850
Virginia-18.7%
North Carolina-27.6%
Tennessee-20.5%

What was the reason for Massachusetts being so high? Was this the literacy rate of the entire population or just those who attended private schooling? provide a link to where you found this.

I have already stated that public schooling is horrendous. The fault lies in the governement for doing an inadequate job of funding our schools. It would be very impractical to abolish public schooling at this point. Too many people are enrolled in public schools and there would be a good chance that a lot of qualified people who aren't very wealthy would get passed over by those who have the money to go to those schools. I'm not sure the government would be able to fund an extensive voucher program. What really needs to be changed is the curriculum being taught in public schools. It needs to be more challenging and up to the same level as private schools.

[Akno21]

I support the teaching of some Christian principles/ideas in the public school system. 

Which ones?

[Joe Kakistocracy]

Against it, but support the "moment of silence".

I support as many 'moments' as necessary to keep the little buggers quiet for as long as possible.