[Vision2020] Churches and Taxes

[James Reynolds]

Hi Doug,

The isuue of how best to educate our children has been answered many times. 
Public education does a better job and it is all inclusive. It is fine if a 
religious group wants to educate their children differently to instill 
whatever beliefs they want into their children. No one argues with that. But 
until the private schools take up the yolk of educating the entire 
distribution of learning abilities they are not an option of any consequence 
to our nation.

I have personally seen graduates from Logos (will never mention names) who 
were ignorant of basic scientific fact and had the math abilities of a 
counting horse. I have seen the same from the Moscow school district. I have 
also seen graduates from both that I knew I would never be able to keep up 
with. The point is however, we should expect this. For every single 
attribute in the universe there is a distribution.

The main benefit of the pubic system is that it attends to the entire 
distribution from the most to the least capable and tries to give them all 
the best.

James Reynolds


>From: heirdoug at netscape.net
>To: kjajmix1 at msn.com, thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes
>Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:13:41 -0500
>
>keely,
>
>I'm glad to see that your response time has gotten shorter. It must be the 
>winter olympics.
>
>I suppose that would depend upon how you define 'benefits' and 'educated'. 
>The last I heard only 50 % of those who graduate from High School actually 
>go on to Higher education and of those 30 % have to take remedial math and 
>remedial language classes over in order to enter into college. I used to 
>teach the high school graduates that couldn't add, subtract, multiply and 
>divide properly. If I had given them the above data in the form of a word 
>problem, many of them would have added the 50 to the 30 and come up with - 
>80% can pass the basic math problems with ease.....
>
>Oh, by the way, I'm not smug I just have a head cold.... Thanks for your 
>concern!
>
>lemeno, Doug!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: heirdoug at netscape.net; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
>Sent: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:24:37 -0800
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes
>
>
>I suppose the argument that all of society benefits when its children are 
>educated would be lost on the ineffably smug Mr. Farris . . .
>
>keely
>
>From: heirdoug at netscape.net
>To: thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes
>Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:47:27 -0500
>
>Tom-Tom,
>
>Using your infallible logic, if parents of school aged children educate 
>them via some
>other form than Keely's infallible school system then they should be free 
>from paying
>52% property taxes to the school district for services they do not use!
>
>I'll Pray for fewer teachers teaching larger classes with less 
>administrative overhead!
>
>Again keep up the good work! Doug
>
>Tom-Tom so eloquently stated:
>New Rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the 
>fire
>department when they catch fire. Sorry, Reverend, that's one of those
>services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay
>for; you can pray for rain.
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