San Luis Obispo County makes the top 5 student truancy list

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After reading the posts herein that are being bantered about, logically, what has truancy got to do with vouchers, private schools, and home-schooling in the first place? Many Christian posters within this thread couch their approval of vouchers, albeit, in a religious vein so they could be used towards the religious school realm. This old saw has been discussed ad infinitum and mostly remains at a stalemate because of entities like the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause as set out in historical documents of the Founding Fathers AND Supreme Court jurisprudence, such as Everson v Board of Education (1947)

Turning it around, if monies were to be used towards religious schools, let’s not forget what students will be learning at the secular taxpayer’s expense. While some do provide an excellent and broad education, others espouse narrow and even completely inaccurate views rooted in religion on science and other subjects. True Christians wouldn’t have a problem with this, but what if the tax dollars went to support students at schools that teach with Creationist textbooks? Children would learn that Adam was created from dirt, Eve from Adam’s rib, along with a talking snake, of which it never was proposed in what language the snake spoke, Aramaic, or Greek?

Furthermore, kids would be taught that the Hebrew God didn’t want his creation to be smart at all, because He told Adam and Eve NOT to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge.” Since Eve transgressed in this respect, the Christian’s Hebrew God Yahweh gave Eve severe pain in child birth, and her husband was to rule over her. (Genesis 3:16) This of course is barring a “plethora” of other biblically wrong precepts that are too many to mention.

Private religious schools ARE NOT subject to the same standards as public schools, and disinformation in the classroom can often flourish in these institutions at societies expense. Of what use is it that little Tommy or Sally’s grades improve if he or she is learning in a religious school that the Earth is approximately 6000 years old? Going into the 21st Century, these explicit examples above is what one wants their taxpayer money to fund?!

On the flip-side, would Christians be comfortable with their taxpayer funds going to Muslim schools where Sharia law could be taught? Where within the Muslim Holy Writings of the Qur’an there’re edicts to befriend, behead, and kill all infidels, Christians and Jews because they don’t accept Allah’s words? (Qur’an 8:12, 3:28, 47:4, 22:19, 5:33, 3:85, 9:5, 2:191, to name a few passages) The current actions of ISIS is an example of the above direct commands by Allah. The irony is, the same protocols mentioned above within the Islamic Qur’an are within the Christian’s bible as well if Christians actually read it and followed same. Seemingly the Muslims could also be upset in paying for Christian religious schools in this respect.

There’re a myriad of religions that all contradict each other, even divisions within a particular faith, but at the same time, each one has the only truth. Funny, isn’t it? A hypothetical; can you see the can of worms being opened in this respect if private religious school vouchers ever came into being? We don’t have to worry about this happening, because we still have the First Amendment, therefore facetiously, praise one of the different God’s still existing in the minds of it’s believers.