School choice is sweeping America. Now, Supreme Court has given parents even more options.
Since COVID-19 emerged in early 2020, families have had their children’s education upended.
Many public schools remained shuttered to in-person learning for more than a year, leaving parents with few options – especially if they couldn’t afford private schools that were much more likely to keep their classrooms open during the pandemic.
The frustration that ensued from parents juggling work and their children’s learning, as well as the depression many students suffered while being stuck at home, spurred an explosion of school choice initiatives around the country.
Think of the children!
A new decision by the U.S. Supreme Court will surely add to this momentum…
…on Tuesday, the court once again sided strongly with both school choice and religious freedom.
Power to the parents, success to the students!
…the government could not prevent parents from choosing religious schools within a private educational choice program, and that discrimination based on the faith “status” of a school violates the First Amendment.
Maine had attempted to bypass that ruling by drawing a convoluted distinction between “status” and “use” – saying it didn’t want taxpayer dollars going to religious instruction. The state grants tuition assistance to families who live in rural areas without a public school so students can attend either a nearby district or a private school, but it stopped short of allowing parents to choose sectarian schools.
Since faith-based schools are going to integrate religion into their curriculum, this was a flimsy argument.
And is very discriminatory.
“The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools – so long as the schools are not religious. That is discrimination against religion. A State’s anti-establishment interest does not justify enactments that exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise.”
Because they want the people to WORSHIP them, not God.
This will have huge implications around America, as most of the states’ Blaine Amendments, which prevent state dollars from going toward religious schools, will be effectively void.
And what is that?
…these antiquated measures on the books, vestiges of 19th century anti-Catholic bigotry.
About time that is removed. Otherwise that is like saying we can have islamophobia because the government is ANTI-religion, or allowing anti-semitic.
The Michigan-based Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is seeking to overturn the state’s anti-choice amendment…
Which is…
Even though the amendment’s language is “neutral,” it was enacted with “anti-religious hostility,” according to Patrick Wright, director of the legal foundation.
How will the woke/sjw/anti-religion groups indoctrinate students if their monopoly on education is removed?
Hopefully, such institutions doing indoctrinations will lose students/enrollments and will be closed permanently.
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