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Should taxes fund religious schools?
« on: November 02, 2010, 10:24:41 AM »
If your kid can't go to a school beecause of their lack of religion, do you think your taxes should still have to pay towards it?
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2010, 10:26:03 AM »
Quote from: Spastic on November 02, 2010, 10:24:41 AM
If your kid can't go to a school beecause of their lack of religion, do you think your taxes should still have to pay towards it?

Do  taxes currently fund religious schools?  :orly:
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2010, 10:27:06 AM »
Could  we tax the churches then?
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2010, 10:35:53 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on November 02, 2010, 10:26:03 AM
Quote from: Spastic on November 02, 2010, 10:24:41 AM
If your kid can't go to a school beecause of their lack of religion, do you think your taxes should still have to pay towards it?

Do  taxes currently fund religious schools?  :orly:

Here they do, but, religious schools does not mean that much.

All schools have to meet the same standards, and get the same funding. So, a Catholic school will teach the same stuff as other schools, in their ethics and how they think about humanity, they are influenced by Catholicism.

I live in a small village, there are three schools. Public, Catholic, and Christian. On all schools you will find people from all kinds of backgrounds. Religious or not.

My kids go to the christian school. The public school was doing really bad when I had to choose, people take their kids away from that school still. So, I visited the one closest to home beside the public one. It looked good. I had an interview with them on how evangelical they were. They are not. Kids do get a story based on a bible story twice a week. And the day does start with a prayer. No winning of souls though, and no connection to churches.

And my kids have had no problems with their critical attitude on some things either.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2010, 10:38:14 AM »
Quote from: Spastic on November 02, 2010, 10:24:41 AM
If your kid can't go to a school beecause of their lack of religion, do you think your taxes should still have to pay towards it?

Keeping kids from school, because of their lack of religion is horrible. All kids have a right to education, and no religion should ever be forced on people, no matter what age they are.

If schools exclude kids from visiting them, apart from obvious reasons, those schools should not receive tax money.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2010, 10:53:24 AM »
NO!!!
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2010, 10:59:14 AM »
Quote from: hykeaswell on November 02, 2010, 10:38:14 AM
Quote from: Spastic on November 02, 2010, 10:24:41 AM
If your kid can't go to a school beecause of their lack of religion, do you think your taxes should still have to pay towards it?

Keeping kids from school, because of their lack of religion is horrible. All kids have a right to education, and no religion should ever be forced on people, no matter what age they are.

If schools exclude kids from visiting them, apart from obvious reasons, those schools should not receive tax money.

In Northern Ireland and Scotland, Catholic children go to seperate schools. In the village I grew up in there was a non-denominational primary school, which I went to. The Catholics had to be bused through to the nearest town, which was a 30 minute bus ride. My best friend went to the Catholic school, and most of my friends were people I met through her, and so they all went to Catholic school as well. I had hardly any friends in the school I went to.

I think it's a very bad idea. There was hardly any interaction between children from the different schools. It was common for children to grow up in the same street, but never get to know each other because they went to different schools.

In N.Ireland religious bigotry is a huge problem. I think educating the children together would be a good start at ending the problem.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2010, 12:23:17 PM »
No. >:(
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2010, 05:19:50 PM »
As I said in the other thread, if people want to learn about religion and god, they should go to church and leave secular education to the schools, both puvlic and private.

I know there are some Catholic based schools (we have lots of 'em here like Marist Bros) that don't teach a lot of religion, but really, teaching about religion and converting should be done in church.

And as government schools have to report taxes, so should all other education authorities.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2010, 07:53:45 PM »
No, because they surely should have their own income via donations.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2010, 08:24:16 AM »
I think all religious schools should be burned to the ground, with the faculty trapped inside.
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
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Re: Should taxes fund religious schools?
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2010, 05:03:54 AM »
I remember when I was in high school one year and the government were handing out their annual funding. I think the handouts got published in the paper.
One catholic high school in our area (named after Mary Mackillop) got $250k. Meanwhile my old public primary school got....$900!!!!. I think my state high school got about $10k.
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