Christians Investing in Public Education | Capital Commentary by Stephanie Summers. MGB: It is time for Christians in both the Evangelical, Mainline Protestant and Catholic worlds to rise up and abolish the Blaine Amendments to state constitutions which ban direct funding of religious schools. While the Charter movement has been a good work-around, it would be better to deal with this anti-Catholic relic directly as a matter of justice. Also, if we begin to fund more religious schools directly, we must also be ready to raise taxes to capture what would have been paid by higher income individuals for private schooling.
As to the question of community and family support. In many households, parents are functionally illiterate and cannot help. Justice demands that these be made whole. Indeed, such individuals should be paid to become literate and receive full family support and health benefits while doing so. The religious educational community should also focus on these students as well, rather than leaving it to the public system that failed them in the first place. Additionally, vocational education should be taken on by such schools. There is no reason religion class need be left out of a culinary school.
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