RE: Petition: Halt Louisiana's voucher program that could fund creationism.
July 21, 2012 at 7:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2012 at 7:20 am by Justtristo.)
Ziploc Surprise,
We in Australia have had for decades, direct government funding of non public schools, which include evangelical ones which often teach young earth creationism. However then again a lot of non public schools here are Catholic or Mainline Protestant ones which often do a better job in teaching religion than the public schools do.
I personally don't think schools vouchers are bad, indeed I do see a lot of merit in them. However the schools which receive these vouchers should be subject to government oversight when it comes to their curriculum's, to give a couple of examples;
1. Requiring schools state and non-state to have objective comparative religious studies classes.
2. Requiring that schools have properly qualified counselors, social workers and psychologists.
3. Requiring that they teach things like evolution, critical thinking and the scientific method in science classes.
We in Australia have had for decades, direct government funding of non public schools, which include evangelical ones which often teach young earth creationism. However then again a lot of non public schools here are Catholic or Mainline Protestant ones which often do a better job in teaching religion than the public schools do.
I personally don't think schools vouchers are bad, indeed I do see a lot of merit in them. However the schools which receive these vouchers should be subject to government oversight when it comes to their curriculum's, to give a couple of examples;
1. Requiring schools state and non-state to have objective comparative religious studies classes.
2. Requiring that schools have properly qualified counselors, social workers and psychologists.
3. Requiring that they teach things like evolution, critical thinking and the scientific method in science classes.
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