10 Frightening Things Happening at Conservative Christian Schools That May Be Funded With Your Taxes
10 Frightening Things That Happen at Conservative Christian Schools That May Be Funded With Your Tax Dollars
Inflammatory anti-choice propaganda? Lies about sexuality? We need to keep in mind what goes on in many Christian schools when we discuss vouchers.
May 17, 2012
School vouchers have long been a pet cause of Christian school advocates who want to shore up profits and increase their ranks. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court ruled that public funds designated for private school tuition were not an infringement on church/state separation. That gave private Christian school advocates a green light to promote vouchers for themselves.
Though vouchers have become legal in some states, like Ohio, others, like North Carolina, are still holding out. Either way, Christian school advocates show no signs of slowing down their efforts. One reason vouchers remain so contested is that they sometimes fund activities in private Christian schools that many American taxpayers would not want to support. Here are 10 strange things that happen at Christian schools that may give you pause next time vouchers are debated in your state:
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1. Inflammatory anti-choice rhetoric.
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2. Hands-on anti-choice activism.
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3. Christian sex-ed.
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4. Intolerance. Since September 11, 2001, Christian schools have become increasingly Islamophobic. In 2010, the Texas State Board of Education ignited a national controversy when it “voted to scrub {public school} textbooks of anything that smacked of a ‘pro-Islam’ or ‘anti-Christian’ bias.” In other words, public schools would now be required to use school curriculums that whitewash Christians and demonize Muslims. Though relatively new to public education, Islamophobia has long run rampant at Christian schools.
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5. Punishment by gender. Teachers in Christian schools sometimes stereotype boys as more rambunctious and rebellious than girls. In practice, this means that boys are often the targets of harsher corporal punishment. In 2007, a Chicago school was sued for injury and surgical costs after a forcing a 14-year-old boy to kneel in place for nine days, causing a hip injury. A few years later, in 2011, a Christian school teacher in Orlando was arrested on charges of beating a boy at her home with a rusted broom handle.
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6. Pregnancy expulsions and firings.
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7. Revisionist evangelical history classes.
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8. Creationism-only science.
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9. Ridiculous dress codes, mostly for girls.
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10. Proms without dancing.
More:
http://www.alternet.org/belief/155482/10_frightening_things_that_happen_at_conservative_christian_schools_that_may_be_funded_with_your_tax_dollars/?page=entire
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That's why they killed him.
If "God" didn't want variation, why did s/he/it create so much of it?
These blasphemers assume that they know the absolute answer to that question, so they can say what and when anything must be different and what and when anything must be the same. Their truths are external to the individuals upon whom the impose them. Is it any wonder that the INTERNAL connections fail and good "Christians" commit not only all kinds of atrocities, but also FAIL in the myriad "small" (EASILY corrected) events that would create the kind of world that they SAY they want.
Truth/validity (as in "... I am the way, the truth, and the life ..."
is real -ized in freedom.
The fact that these "schools" don't know that means that they are BUSINESSES. We should identify exactly what they are selling and tax them appropriately.
