Anyone who thinks religious holidays are celebrated in public schools has
not been in public schools for a long time.
Creationism is religion and not science and should
not be in public schools, neither does science comment on a «divine spark».
Not exact matches
I
'm not suggesting blindly spending money just because something
is important (as Mark Zuckerberg learned when he invested $ 100 million
in the Newark
Public Schools).
«We
're staffed to really support
not just independent private
schools like ourselves, but
in the future,
public schools where the majority of kids
are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.
«The problem
is, I don't know whether I
'm going to get the mensch or the schmuck,» Joele Frank, of the eponymous
public relations firm that has helped companies fight Elliott and other activists, commented at a panel at a Tulane law
school event
in March.
With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll
in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit
schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the
public about their offerings.
In other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5 M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the stree
In other words, even if you buy a $ 1.5
M median home and pay $ 20,000 a year
in property tax, you are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the public school down the stree
in property tax, you
are not guaranteed to have your kid get into the
public school down the street.
Then I factored
in private education costs for two kids to
be conservative given I may
not have two kids and
public schools are often good enough.
He
is a former director of BMC Software, Inc., a non-
public software corporation based
in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of the following
not - for - profit organizations:
School of
Public Policy, University of Calgary (Executive Fellow), National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Global 100 Network (Chair), C.D. Howe Institute, and Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
And I know that my community, our
schools and
public gathering places
are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put
in my hands.
The question
is not whether students have rights
in public school — they do — but whether mandatory clear backpacks
are an overreach on the part of
school administration.
Of the 52 Facebook comments, the remaining five included one asking whether the clear backpacks
were just at Stoneman Douglas or
were countywide (Answer: Just Stoneman Douglas); two that weren't understandable; and two that maintained minor students have no rights
in public school, so the complaints about the loss of rights by students
were meaningless.
«It
's obvious the world of
public employees
in Spain needs to become smaller and that'll create unemployment, it can't
be helped,» said Javier Diaz - Gimenez, a professor of economics at IESE business
school in Madrid.
Teachers
in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down
public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere
in the U.S. but whose political prospects
were not clear.
I believe the real issue
is funding of any
school that
is not in the
public or separate
school sector.
Completely scrap the the funding for private
schools, but
in the event it
's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction
in funding levels to financially aid the
public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently
are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent
in providing
school lunch programs.
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher won't face immediate discipline from the Broward County
schools after
being arrested for leaving a loaded gun
in a
public restroom.
It wasn't until a
public servant took it upon themselves to test the water
in Prince Rupert
schools this year that it
was revealed that children and staff
are being exposed to elevated lead levels.
All this despite the fact that private
schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private
school student
is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from
public schools scored higher
in first - year university classes than their private
school counterparts.10
Public Defender Howard Finkelstein said guilt
is not an issue
in the case of Cruz, who
was taken into custody shortly after Wednesday's shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School.
My greatest objection to the presence of religion
in schools is that
public schools are supposed to
be about providing education for everyone —
not religious instruction.
Bottom line
is this, keep it out of the
public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they
are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children
in the
public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.
I just don't want them teaching
in my
schools or
being demonstrative
in public with their husbands.
Oh, so you admit that it isn't «illegal» to have students sing Christmas carols
in public schools, as long as they
are learning them for the musical concepts embedded
in them?
Tom > «Oh, so you admit that it isn't «illegal» to have students sing Christmas carols
in public schools, as long as they
are learning them for the musical concepts embedded
in them?
I only got the last question wrong because I
'm not American and I don't know whether it
's legally okay
in the States to read from the bible
in public schools.
@ I wonder The bible can't
be taught
in public schools in US science can..
Here
's what actually happened... The liberal courts decided that prayer and any mention of God
is not welcome
in public schools.
And I guess you «don't care» about teaching Creationism
in public schools because you aren't
in public school anymore.
One need
not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to
public education and then to society
in general by how these cases
were decided and what
public school officials
were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.
I think Jews got the worse end of the Soviet era but I don't hear them crying if there
's no singing of Hannukah songs
in the
public schools.
Although the issue of homeschool student participation
in public high
school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home
in our family — both our kids
are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....
Given the common association of the word «indoctrinate» with totalitarian methods, there might
be at least a «slight suspicion» that Justice Stevens did
not use the term
in its neutral sense, especially since he nowhere refers to
public school indoctrination.
I
am not arguing for daily Bible reading and prayer
in the
public schools.
And no: prayer
is not banned
in public schools.
Isn't the question about the use of
public funds — why would Christians want to have the 10 Commandments
in a
public school — isn't that personal?
It
's not actually an impressive accomplishment that there
is less abuse by clergymen than people working
in the
public schools.
Mormons do
not run religious
schools that take
public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that
is a practice approved by the Supreme Court
in states with substantial numbers of parochial
schools.
In the question session, philosophy professor Jeff Jordan made the following observation to Dennett, «If Darwinism is inherently atheistic, as you say, then obviously it can't be taught in public schools.&raqu
In the question session, philosophy professor Jeff Jordan made the following observation to Dennett, «If Darwinism
is inherently atheistic, as you say, then obviously it can't
be taught
in public schools.&raqu
in public schools.»
If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made
public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclus
public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg
School of
Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclus
Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you
be aware that we too
in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded
in San Francisco, Rome and other places
in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...
He said federal law, under the Establishment Clause,
is clear that
public schools can
not «approve
in advance a student's prayer» or «carve out time specifically for religious expression.»
The government should
not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers
in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but
not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations
are fully
in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit
in conflict with strict separation.
Loosely translated, this means that the First Amendment does
not protect, but restricts, free speech
in public schools if it
is religious
in nature.
Still a third national survey (1997) discovered
not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it
was precisely the black age group most likely to have children
in the
public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).
Also courts have ruled ID / creationism can't
be taught
in public schools in US.
Parochial
schools are supported by church funds
in addition to tuition,
not tax dollars, providing
in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the
public education system paid for by taxpayers.
As Europeans, now naturalized U.S. citizens, they
are stunned the Bible
is not taught
in public schools.
What
is less clear to me
is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12
is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2
is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia
is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but
not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching
in the church
are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings
are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31
is often applied prescriptively and other poetry
is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam
are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament
are treated as irrelevant
in one moment, but important enough to display
in public courthouses and
schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family
is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
I once spoke with a young woman who
was raised
in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my
public high
school, so what
was the point?»
In a polarising debate that has already played on the public's fear of creeping Islamisation, those who believe in the inherent value of faith - based schools will be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown out with the bathwate
In a polarising debate that has already played on the
public's fear of creeping Islamisation, those who believe
in the inherent value of faith - based schools will be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown out with the bathwate
in the inherent value of faith - based
schools will
be hoping that the baby Jesus doesn't get thrown out with the bathwater.