I checked out their website and concluded that this is a very worthy cause and made a contribution. What do they do?
- They provided scholarships to over 500 Baltimore City students in the spring of 2009 to attend a private or parochial school of their parent's choice.
- The average scholarship is $1,798.
- The average tuition is $5,839/year with the parents paying the difference between the scholarship amount and the school tuition.
- Recipient families are selected at random from a waiting list.
- Children start in the program in grades K-3 and then continue on. Their younger siblings are eligible for the program when they start kindergarten.
- Donations are matched dollar for dollar by the Children's Scholarship Fund and the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation.
Meanwhile, the government will take charge of the social justice problem between the oppressors and the victims. To do so, the federal government must ignore the restrictions the Constitution puts on its powers and claim it is empowered to do anything in the interest of the General Welfare.
Government schools are also crippled in the critical area of teaching morals. Due to religious freedom and due to political pressures from various blocks of voters, they simply cannot discuss many moral issues and many historical issues also.
Some of my readers, like me, are not believers in gods or a god. Many of the children receiving scholarships are using them to attend parochial schools. Because the public school system has largely destroyed private education in America, these are about the only schools available in many big cities that will at least teach children reading and writing, math, science, history, and literature. Might the students be taught some religious ideas also that I might not agree with? Yes, I am sure they will. But, if they have some mental thinking skills as a result of going to a parochial school, then at least they can use those skills to examine the religious ideas they were taught for validity as they grow up and become accustomed to be able to manage their own lives. The dangerous people are those who feel incompetent to live their own lives or those who will not do so because they feel guilty for something their ancestors did or that the ancestors of others of their broad identity group may have done.
An average parochial school does a much better job of preparing a child for life than does the average inner city public school. It may not be the ideal education, but it is an education and that sure beats the alternatives available to most rather poor city families.
2 comments:
Hi Margaret,
Thanks for your kind comment. It will be a delight for me to know that you are reading my writings. I understand that many do not agree with me on many things, but I always try to present reasoned arguments for my beliefs and to welcome counter-arguments. Please feel free to comment, whether to question my points, add to them, or to agree.
Thanks so much for writing a post about our organization! We've just put up a new website so if you want to have a look around please do! CSFBaltimore.org
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