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Originally posted by baltassoc
Since I can't seem to drag myself out of this, I'm going to expand a bit.
I think my view on this debate is sharply shaped by my personal experience: as bad as the public schools I attended may have been, the private schools in the area, all parochial (but none of them Catholic) were much, much worse. Like can't do math at all worse. Like can only read at all so that one can read the Bible worse. Like schools that choose to respond to the evolution debate by simply omitting biology, chemistry and physics from the curriculum, replacing the time public schools waste on those classes with bible study.
For every voucher that would be used to send a kid to a better, happens-to-be-affliated-with-a-church school, at least one would be used to send a kid to a worse, doesn't-just-happen-to-be-affliated-with-a church-but rather that's the reason it's worse school.
That's what I hear when I hear "vouchers." I hear I'm paying for nutcases to send their kids to nutcase schools.
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The people I know who went to catholic schools are pretty well-educated, like "got into Michigan and I didn't" educated. You raise an interesting point re. how they teach biology/evolution, I just don't know what they do. I do believe that HS sciences are so much wasted time. Sciences are generally a college subject.
The main benefit to sending kids to Catholic schools comes from the principal being able to hit them and expel them. My kids are in public schools and no one is ever hit. Instead loads of kids are found in need of meds. If I had to choose, I'd rather my kid gets spanked to settle down instead of drugged.
