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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d contact the office of DEI because they aren’t offering Seders or Easter dinners to my knowledge. I sometimes get the feeling that we tiptoe around Muslims in APS[/quote]. Not true. They hosted a Seder last year too. [/quote] 
Ok, that’s shouldn’t be allowed either[/quote]

[b]I really really wish we'd just give the religious right their vouchers and kick them out of public school once and for all. H[/b]ow celebrating a community's religious and cultural differences is upsetting is beyond me. I'm an atheist. And an attorney. The Iftar dinner in and of itself is not at all legally or ethically objectionable. It's after hours. It's not being funded by the school. It's parent and teacher volunteers.

And what the h&ll is an Easter celebration? Like a ham or something? Don't you all do that on the WHOLE FORKING WEEK PLUS A MONDAY YOU GET OFF IN APS EVERY YEAR????? I'm on the PTA, if you want a ham dinner, please let us know. I'll bring one myself. Just for you. [/quote]

I do not want my tax money going to fund their private educations. I can't afford one for my own kids, why the h--- should I have to pay for theirs?[/quote]

But you would be able to get the same money they do to fund your kids' private education.   That's the point.[/quote]

I don't want - no longer need - that money to fund my own kids' private education....unless you're going to let me apply it toward college tuition. People with no kids should not have to fund others' private educations. Taxpayers pay to support the public education system. [/quote]

Our taxes fund public colleges that your child may be or is attending. Since we don’t have children attending colleges, should we have to subsidize your child’s college tuition? Also, we don’t use the roads and public infrastructure around your neighborhood, we shouldn’t have to pay for the use as well.

School vouchers offer parents of school age children choices. They can choose to use the voucher at a public school if they want. It’s not subsidizing privates because the cost of the voucher was paid for by taxes the parents paid. If you’re arguing that parents who never paid taxes towards public education then they shouldn’t get vouchers, I can accept that. [/quote]

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