Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money
to fund religious
schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice
to send their
children to these
schools to be further subsidized or they want
to buy themselves good will with the
increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide
to seek higher office.
But then Marji's parents, out of fear for their
child's
increasingly rebellious attitude in
school,
send her off
to Vienna for an enlightened education, and Persepolis takes a huge tumble.