http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/louisiana-makes-bold-bid-_n_1563900.html
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Louisiana is embarking on the nation's boldest experiment in privatizing public education, with the state preparing to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public schools to pay private industry, businesses owners and church pastors to educate children.
The school willing to accept the most voucher students -- 314 -- is New Living Word in Ruston, which has a top-ranked basketball team but no library. Students spend most of the day watching TVs in bare-bones classrooms. Each lesson consists of an instructional DVD that intersperses Biblical verses with subjects such chemistry or composition.
The Upperroom Bible Church Academy in New Orleans, a bunker-like building with no windows or playground, also has plenty of slots open. It seeks to bring in 214 voucher students, worth up to $1.8 million in state funding.
At Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, pastor-turned-principal Marie Carrier hopes to secure extra space to enroll 135 voucher students, though she now has room for just a few dozen. Her first- through eighth-grade students sit in cubicles for much of the day and move at their own pace through Christian workbooks, such as a beginning science text that explains "what God made" on each of the six days of creation. They are not exposed to the theory of evolution.
"We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children," Carrier said.
Other schools approved for state-funded vouchers use social studies texts warning that liberals threaten global prosperity; Bible-based math books that don't cover modern concepts such as set theory; and biology texts built around refuting evolution
BUT WAIT!
http://www.wbrz.com/news/lawmakers-concerned-about-vouchers-funding-muslim-school/
QuoteThe Louisiana Legislature passed a funding plan for public schools on the last day of session, but not before debate which included a discussion about what types of schools could benefit from Governor Bobby Jindal's voucher plan.
The plan makes vouchers or scholarships available to some students in low performing schools. The vouchers can be used to pay for tuition to some private schools.
Representative John Bel Edwards says the Islamic School of Greater New Orleans applied for inclusion in the voucher program. He says if the school is included, taxpayer money would be used to support Muslim teachings.
AAAANNNNNNNDDDDD.....
http://www.wbrz.com/news/islamic-school-no-longer-on-la-voucher-list/
QuoteA fight over funding for the state's new voucher program caused a heated debate over an Islamic school.
The Louisiana House approved a funding plan for public schools on the last day of session. Before the approval, state Representative John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, spoke about the Islamic School of Greater New Orleans. The school was on the list of voucher applicants, but is no longer on the list.
:lulz:
Clearly the words the Prophet are not as worthy as the thoughts of the crusty old white men reinterpreting what some old Jewish men thought.
Also, I am sure as fuck not moving to LA now.
I really miss non-sanctimonious crooked Louisiana pols like Kingfish and Uncle Earl. These people they have nowadays have a stick up their ass.
Well, they say "children are the future", so this is clearly the future that "we" want.
A future generation of religious nut jobs, that watch a lot of TV, don't know how to read, are accustomed to spending their waking hours crammed in cubicle-like spaces, that either don't know what evolution is or think its just a refuted theory, that God made the world in 6 days, and of course, that they are not MOOSLIMS.
news like this really helps me get over my fear of mortality.
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on June 10, 2012, 07:38:09 AM
Well, they say "children are the future", so this is clearly the future that "we" want.
Just you wait. Voucher schooling is the fucking future. Classrooms with no books, or Biblical Math Books.
Some of them will rebel.
And become PAGANS. :horrormirth:
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on June 10, 2012, 09:33:46 AM
Some of them will rebel.
And become PAGANS. :horrormirth:
Or rabid Dawkins style atheists.
Or Crowley types. This could get hilarious at some point. :lulz:
This is definitely going to get funny as shit.
:facepalm:
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on June 10, 2012, 07:38:09 AM
Well, they say "children are the future", so this is clearly the future that "we" want.
Well, it's at least the future you're gonna get. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 11, 2012, 04:11:12 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on June 10, 2012, 07:38:09 AM
Well, they say "children are the future", so this is clearly the future that "we" want.
Well, it's at least the future you're gonna get. :lulz:
More (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y137/Stella01904/nixon-lol.jpg)
This is quite disturbing and quite funny.