Comments on: Creation in Public Schools: Let’s try it one more time

By: Daniel Fullmer

Daniel Fullmer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:46:47 +0000

Yes, I agree. It just seems that the choices made about education should be “bottom-up”, instead of via government mandates. I’d hope that vouchers would largely remove the ability of government to do things like this.

By: Jason Young

Jason Young — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:24:44 +0000

Vouchers are quite an interesting solution to the problem created by all of this meddling by politicians. The problem, I think, is larger than just the idea of vouchers. Vouchers would help send the overly religious kids to other schools but you have to remember–this is one of the cases where the problem isn’t the schools necessarily, but the government of Louisiana. They are courting a very specific demographic of person when they pass a law like this. That person may very well already have their children out of the public school system. When it comes to the election season, however, the representatives who voted for the bill can issue statements about how they “showed the courage to protect religious freedom in the classroom against the tyranny of the liberal big science” or somesuch. Now they have gotten themselves a lot of votes, even though those children who would be affected could possibly be in private schools.

By: Daniel Fullmer

Daniel Fullmer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:08:08 +0000

Easy solution: vouchers. Get rid of public provision of education. Evangelical fundamentalists can brainwash their kids all they want, as long as I am able to send my children somewhere else. Granted, this isn’t likely to happen.