In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools
www.propublica.org
The state is giving millions in taxpayer dollars directly to private schools to help them renovate and expand their campuses. It may be the next frontier in the push to increase the use of school vouchers, proponents say.
  • @foggy
    71•3 months ago

    If ever a religious institution wanted a clear path to taxation, this is surely it.

    • @acosmichippoEnglish
      53•3 months ago

      well if we were following the rules this wouldn’t be happening in the first place.

  • @[email protected]
    62•3 months ago

    This is bad. I’m so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

    • dantheclammanOPEnglish
      15•3 months ago

      It is pathetic in a way how desperate they are to prop themselves up with taxpayer funds. They know their ideas can’t succeed on their own merits. They need state muscle to help coerce people to believe their myths.

  • @[email protected]
    47•3 months ago

    I’m a Fiscally Responsible Republican and I’d MUCH RATHER have My Taxdollars go to Church then to STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

    -Ohio Republicans knowing their State REJECTED Federal Dollars to Feed Starving Children because it was Deemed Fiscally Irresponsible!

    • @[email protected]English
      8•3 months ago

      This is literally their thinking.

      They alone want to control who gets to benefit from charity. They want to be the arbiters of who is worthy of God’s love and who should suffer under his might.

  • @NABDadEnglish
    39•3 months ago

    When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

    • Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price.
  • @Enthusiasticwhale
    32•3 months ago

    Man… Whatever happened to separation of church and state

      • @Enthusiasticwhale
        6•3 months ago

        If we’re using tax payer money to fund religious private schools it ain’t separated

        • @[email protected]
          7•3 months ago

          I meant that the separation of church and state got separated from our government.

          This is definitely a pretty clear violation of the separation clause.

    • @captainlezbian
      2•3 months ago

      Oh it’s ok I got a more secular education at a religious school in Ohio than my public school friends did

  • @normalexit
    23•3 months ago

    So how do I do something to help? I live a few states over and don’t want my representatives getting any ideas.

    • dantheclammanOP
      33•3 months ago

      I just donated to Freedom From Religion Foundation, which files lawsuits challenging attempts like this to undermine church-state separation

  • acargitz
    19•3 months ago

    I’ve heard that the young’uns call “ohio” things that are weird and cringey.

    • sarcasticsunrise
      6•3 months ago

      I think it’s mainly used to describe something depressing, but weird and cringe work too

    • @Nuke_the_whales
      1•3 months ago

      Can confirm, I live in Canada and my 13 year old daughter and her friends make Ohio jokes

    • Optional
      9•3 months ago

      “Riots are the language of the voiceless”

      -Usually. Sometimes it’s just drunken assholes.

  • @WindyRebel
    5•3 months ago

    Proving why Gen Alpha memes/uses skibidi Ohio.

  • @JoshuaFalken
    2•3 months ago

    Problem -

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    Solution

    OHIO

    It’s not related really, but seeing this article about Ohio doing something stupid reminded me of this article, and specifically the Instagram propaganda shown off within.