TheHMSBeagle, First of all gravity is a law not a theory. Charles Darwin's theory has never been proven and even Darwin himself confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."(Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural). So if the school is going to teach Darwinism as a theory then they should also teach creation. Have you ever been to YCS or any other private religious based school to say that they teach "man is not a mammal and that the Holocaust didn't happen?" The information seems a little hard to believe. Again, we are getting away from the point. I believe we could argue for days about what is taught to our children, however it is the parents responsibility to take an active role in their education. I have a child in one of the charter schools because he could not get the help he needed any other way. I do not blame the teachers whose classes are over crowed and as stated before may be full of children with behavior issues, but because this happens - kids are falling through the cracks. We may not have an answer to these problems anytime time soon, and while we are trying to figure them out, charter schools and private schools seem to be filling the gap.
I see everyone is talking about how the vouchers are taking money away from the schools, well what about open enrollment that takes money from the poor schools and gives it to the recruiting richer schools. I don't see anyone crying over those lost tax dollars. By the way "theHMSbeagle" the public schools are bias - they teach Darwinism as law, which it clearly is not and christian children have to learn it, talk about brain washing. Also the schools teach specifically for proficiency test just to make their schools look good. And to "ericlw" our country was founded on freedom of religion. They left England because they had to worship a certain way, and the separation of state and church that you all are talking about is not even written in the constitution of the US. These vouchers can be used at any private school and are available in several parts of Ohio not just the Youngstown area. Should a child have to stay in a school that has been in academic emergency for a number of years?
VOUCHING FOR VOUCHERS
TheHMSBeagle,
First of all gravity is a law not a theory. Charles Darwin's theory has never been proven and even Darwin himself confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."(Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural). So if the school is going to teach Darwinism as a theory then they should also teach creation.
Have you ever been to YCS or any other private religious based school to say that they teach "man is not a mammal and that the Holocaust didn't happen?" The information seems a little hard to believe.
Again, we are getting away from the point. I believe we could argue for days about what is taught to our children, however it is the parents responsibility to take an active role in their education. I have a child in one of the charter schools because he could not get the help he needed any other way. I do not blame the teachers whose classes are over crowed and as stated before may be full of children with behavior issues, but because this happens - kids are falling through the cracks.
We may not have an answer to these problems anytime time soon, and while we are trying to figure them out, charter schools and private schools seem to be filling the gap.
February 14, 2009 at 10:40 a.m. permalink suggest removal
VOUCHING FOR VOUCHERS
I see everyone is talking about how the vouchers are taking money away from the schools, well what about open enrollment that takes money from the poor schools and gives it to the recruiting richer schools. I don't see anyone crying over those lost tax dollars. By the way "theHMSbeagle" the public schools are bias - they teach Darwinism as law, which it clearly is not and christian children have to learn it, talk about brain washing. Also the schools teach specifically for proficiency test just to make their schools look good. And to "ericlw" our country was founded on freedom of religion. They left England because they had to worship a certain way, and the separation of state and church that you all are talking about is not even written in the constitution of the US. These vouchers can be used at any private school and are available in several parts of Ohio not just the Youngstown area. Should a child have to stay in a school that has been in academic emergency for a number of years?
February 12, 2009 at 8:27 p.m. permalink suggest removal