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Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by pierat on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:17PM (#36775989)
The bad side of vouchers is that my taxes goes to shitty religious school that teaches cretinism.. oh, creationism as real, the bible is 100% true, and further idiocy labeled as "Religion" as true real facts.

Last thing I want my tax dollars go toward is religious child-brainwashing and radicalized programming.

In places where vouchers are legal, this is the kind of result you get.

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by electriclove on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:25PM (#36776146)
I definitely don’t want religious brainwashing. I also definitely do not want the indoctrination that is taking place in our public schools.
Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by pierat on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:30PM (#36776240)
What "indoctrination" are you speaking of? Care to provide some examples?

Are you talking about attempting to erase African American's suffering over the last 400 years here?

Or are you talking about erasing LGBTQ peoples?

Or are you wanting to erase health education and sex ed, cause "celibacy is better" (aka catholic propaganda)?

Which indoctrinations are you talking about?

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by snapcaster on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:53PM (#36776624)
Would it be possible to interpret the comment you're responding to more charitably and respond to that?
Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by pierat on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @02:12PM (#36776897)
That WAS a charitable response to that comment of "public school indoctrination".

Searching "Public School Indoctrination" in google shows the following:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/the-indoctrination-in... - Goes off about "critical race theory" (aka history) and to a lesser extent, gender

https://www.ocpathink.org/post/analysis/indoctrination-in-pu... - again, raling on about history classes, err, I mean CRT.

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3941143-the-myth-of-wo... Op-ed that calls out "woke" for what it is - intolerance and hate.

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/02/14/im-a-teacher-heres-how... Oped by a teacher, again rails on about CRT.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/communi... Bemoaning the evils of "leftist ideology".

And looking at how those "anti-public education indoctrination" articles are written, sure as hell looks like a thinktank written by the same dozen or so people to create a frenzy of anger and outrage. And this boogeyman called "CRT" has a different name. It's called History.

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by bluGill on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:35PM (#36776330)
You should not make that point. Society works much better if you accept the wierd beliefs of as many people as you can. Fight againt cannibalism (does any of that even exist anymore?), but be very careful about even that.
Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by pierat on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:46PM (#36776498)
Simply put: why does their religion get money from the state when mine does not?

I dont care if you have weird beliefs. I just don't want weird beliefs funded by the state. And that's also including my own weird beliefs.

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by bluGill on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:27PM (#36777963)
The state is not funding religion. It is funding a school for kids. The the school in this case is also owned by a religion is not relevant.
Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by avereveard on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:50PM (#36776569)
Which places have school vouchers today?

Besides, the state can mandate a minimum curriculum which includes civic education to receive the voucher, with the state managing standardized end of years test for the mandatory curriculum.

The options to handle it well are there, society just needs the will.

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity by dang on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:08PM (#36817284)
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN, so please don't post like this here. We don't want flamewars generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html