Dear Friends and Neighbors,
We recently had 13 propositions on the Republican Primary ballot. If you look at the results of the votes on these 13 propositions, you can say that the Democrats pushed the "no" vote high on issues that Democrats care about. For example, the largest "No" vote was against having closed primaries (number 9). The Democrats like to vote in our primaries to "mess with you", as one Democrat told me.
Democrats would definitely be against school choice (proposition #11) because they want all children in public schools, from which the atheists have removed prayer and the Bible. So you might think that the "no" vote against school choice was all Democrats, but you would be wrong. Proposition #11 had the fourth highest negative vote (23% said no in Collin County). There are Republicans who voted against it. I know this because I have heard home school folks speak against "school choice", where funding follows the child.
At the 2-20-24 Plano Republican Women meeting, Evelyn Brooks, SBOE 14 (we are in 12), spoke against the school choice proposition. She had printed an article to distribute to explain the concerns some people have about strings that could be attached to any money that comes from the state. It was a lengthy article, but very informative.
The article is Vouchers: “School Choice” Trap by Alex Newman
available for your viewing here in PDF format
Here are a few paragraphs from pages 7 & 8 from the article.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, offered vouchers for Christian and private schools. However, they came with hundreds of regulations attached, including a prohibition on requiring Bible classes or chapel for voucher students. Similarly, Alaska introduced a program to offer financial assistance to homeschooling families that ended up being used by most homeschool families in the state. The only catch: No religious material or curricula allowed.
Prominent conservative attorney William Olson was recently commissioned by Moore’s organization to write a legal report on this issue. Headlined “Government-Funded Vouchers Endanger Biblically Faithful Christian Education,” the report cites a “long trail of cases” in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that even where government could not directly regulate private institutions, it could do so by imposing requirements and “strings” attached to public funding.
Olson first fell in love with the voucher idea after reading Milton Friedman in college. Working in the Nixon administration, he was enthusiastic about trying it out in New Hampshire, only to have the plan quashed by government-school forces, he explained to The New American. Then he read Education, Christianity and the State by J. Gresham Machen and spoke with prominent conservatives, and radically changed his view.
“I came to be more concerned about protecting Christian education from the control of the state, than getting a piece of the pie for Christian schools,” Olson said.
You might already know that Hillsdale College does not accept any Federal money. They do not even take money borrowed by students from Federal loans. The college rejects Federal money to avoid the Federal government from interfering with their school, which is the reason some home schoolers don't want school choice money coming to them from the state.
Public education is becoming a threat to our liberties and the morality of our country because Marxists have been pushing a godless agenda into our schools for over 100 years. The author Alex Newman has written a short but informative book that describes how public schools have always had the intention of removing God from the schools. The history of the anti-God movement is well described in a small book by Alex Newman: Indoctrinating Our Children to Death
I was very impressed that Evelyn Brooks spent the time and money to print many copies of the 9 page article for the attendees of the PRW meeting. It was an important topic and worth your time to consider.
Evelyn Brooks said something unexpected. She raised up a small book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, and recommended it to everyone. Yes, it is an excellent book. It is well researched and correlates well with many other books I have read.
I try hard to keep you informed. I hope this article is of value to you.
Robert Canright
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