tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870293485909575225.post2809810811626251437..comments2024-01-24T04:09:16.471-05:00Comments on The Daily Weaving: FYI American Taxpayeramyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07418701204573873745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870293485909575225.post-24289960712779192662011-03-01T12:46:00.530-05:002011-03-01T12:46:00.530-05:00Kh. Nicole,
I don't find your comments disagr...Kh. Nicole,<br /><br />I don't find your comments disagreeable at all. Your point is a good one about extending a universal viewpoint in a diverse population. And I agree with you about the deplorable state of public schools.<br /><br />My point in posting this is only to increase awareness, as I tend to think most of us don't know all the ways in which our tax dollars are used and toward what end. <br /><br />I just wonder, though, have charter school permits been applied for by christians in the US? Have they attempted the same model as Gulen? I don't know - I'd have to do more homework on that, but my guess is that most Christians in the US have less of an inclination to subtly promote Christianity than Muslims have to promote Islam. We're generally a loud bunch, happily promoting our private christian schools and freedom to homeschool. Wouldn't you say?<br /><br />Ah, well.. in the end, I have no trouble living in a diverse culture, <i> knowing that Judeo-Christian principals govern our land </i> I just question the intention of Islamists educating our children.amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418701204573873745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5870293485909575225.post-90231321458880524752011-03-01T11:59:58.806-05:002011-03-01T11:59:58.806-05:00So here I am going to be disagreeable. I hope you...So here I am going to be disagreeable. I hope you'll forgive me. I personally would like to see the public school system as it is scrapped in its entirety and returned to completely local control, so that influences this response quite a bit.<br /><br />Would I send my kid to his kind of school? No way. Would I love if tax dollars that supposedly should be going to the public education of my homeschooled child get reverted to our family? Yes. (This assumes the battle to just not have tax payer funding for public schools is futile, which I believe it is.) Would I want the government telling me not to incorporate Orthodox Christian values throughout my lesson planning? No way! As such, I think you have to extend that courtesy universally in a diversely populated system. <br /><br />The problem is the transition from the old way of doing public school to a new way full of schooling options, is that there will be places where the choices are between Old School and Turkish Muslim Charter School, and that's not a great choice for many Christian parents when Old School is anti-Christian in its pervasive humanistic philosophy.<br /><br />/end disagreeable. Hope you are well!Kh.Nicolenoreply@blogger.com