Maine’s failure to fund these schools, the Supreme Court ruled, is discrimination that violates the parents’ religious freedom.
ruling. Taxpayers will be compelled to support schools that may oppose LGBTQ rights, are virulently anti-abortion, and assail any religion that is not their own narrow expression of Christianity. They actively discriminate, denying admission to students who fail to meet stringent religious qualifications, and they refuse to hire anyone who runs afoul of their faith, targeting LGBTQ+ people especially.
There is hope. The Supreme Court did not force Maine to create this voucher-like program; but it has said that if such programs exist, they must include religious schools. We can protect true religious freedom—and protect badly-needed funding for public education—by getting rid of private school vouchers and other taxpayer subsidies for religious education.
This case is a part of that hateful tradition and also the modern attack on public schools waged by a shadow network creating false controversies. The architect of the anti-CRT movement But vouchers aren’t a solution. Study after study shows that students using vouchers to attend private schools do no better academically than their public school peers. Many private schools incorporate elements into their curriculum that are incorrect or hateful and divisive. Oversight, if it exists at all, is lax.
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