DEAR EDITOR:
I really like reading all the pros and cons of the coming school
bond issue. I recognize that the bond issue is really a smoke
screen obscuring the real issue underlying the question of quality
education in the public schools.
DEAR EDITOR:
I really like reading all the pros and cons of the coming school bond issue. I recognize that the bond issue is really a smoke screen obscuring the real issue underlying the question of quality education in the public schools.
The real issue is how do you break the monopoly public schools have upon the education tax dollars?
How can private schools, such as Saint Mary of Gilroy, and the many home schoolers, get their fair share of the educational dollar?
If the private sector had access to the tax dollars, such as the public schools have, you would see a great improvement in both sectors through honest competition. Nothing improves the quality of a product more than competition in the market place.
I question whether the bond issue in the coming election will do much to improve education in Gilroy. Education is not a matter of glass, brick, cement and wood. The problem lies much deeper than material substance.
With Christian prayers banned in the classroom, but homosexually oriented gay clubs offered, our society is at serious risk morally, ethically, and spiritually.
One cannot change the underlying philosophy of public education based upon Humanism where Christianity is put on the backburner and the heat turned off. Basically, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
We, concerned citizens, would be wasting our time and energy to change the public schools. All effort and energy should be to put the fire to the feet of the politicians and get laws passed granting vouchers or tax credits (for educational expenditure) to parents of the school children, offering parents a choice in schooling and thereby creating honest competition for the educational tax dollar.
Unfortunately, the education problem for our society is far more complex than bricks, steel, or glass, or bonds, or tax credits. We are in a post-Christian era. Christian prayer is banned in the classroom and on the football field, but homosexuality and teenage sex is condoned. This nation, the envy of the world with its freedom and opportunity, was established upon Christian principles.
Until those same Christian principles and precepts are restored to our educational system, we face a very uncertain future.
J.G. McCormack, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, Oct. 24
