“More and more states are enacting school choice measures–sending education tax funds to the schools of the parents’ choice.”
According to the Brookhaven Messenger, 71% of our local residential taxes go to fund schools and libraries. According to the Long Island Family Coalition, the cost of public education per student on Long Island is $36,000. (The tuition for a student at Our Savior New American School is about 1/3 of that, and many pay less if there is a demonstrated need. The government does provide us with bussing, secular approved textbooks–many of which we don’t use, a school nurse and speech therapists as needed, and a stipend for keeping attendance records.) A Long Island superintendent recently retired on a pension and other benefits of over $400,000 per year plus healthcare.
Monopolies Are Illegal
More and more states are enacting school choice measures–sending education tax funds to the schools of the parents’ choice, public or charter, parochial or private, or even homeschool. Why not? Monopolies elsewhere are illegal, because where there are single access goods and services, there is not freedom of competition, the cost goes up and the quality goes down. Education is a good and service. Choice in education is the true civil rights issue of our day.
Removal of God’s Word
In addition to that, public education has forced God and His Word, including the Ten Commandments and the Gospel of Christ and prayer (as well as patriotic history and civics) out of the classrooms, while critical race theory, LGBTQ indoctrination, pornography, socialism and other Marxist/Leninist/Communist ideas, like free public godless education get preferential treatment. (Oklahoma, on the other hand, recently passed a law to include the Bible in all subjects to which it relates.)
Who is Teaching Your Children
This weekend Lutherans remember Martin Luther and celebrate the Reformation. Martin Luther said, “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.”
