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IMAD-AD-DEAN AHMAD

Why Muslims Need Separation of School & State
Excerpt: Knowledge cannot be acquired from any single source but must come from a combination of three sources: reason, experience, and transmission from reliable sources.

 

ALLIANCE FOR THE SEPARATION OF SCHOOL AND STATE

A Special Word for Parents
If you are a Parent, we have a special message for you…

A Special Word for Parents of Faith
If you are a Parent of Faith, we have a special message for you…


A Special Word for Public School Teachers
If you are a Public School Teacher, we have a special message for you…

Our Mission [1997]:
Build a constitutency for "Separation"
Excerpt: Our goal is to end government involvement in elementary and secondary education in the United States. Our job is to build a constituency for Separation. That constituency will act-through many independent organizations-to see Separation accomplished.

What is the Real Cost of sending my child to public school?
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JOSEPH L. BAST

Vouchers and Educational Freedom:  
A Debate between Joseph L. Bast & David Harmer vs. Douglas Dewey

Excerpt: Advocates of educational freedom disagree about whether school vouchers would liberate schools and families and lead to greater freedom of choice or trap private schools in a web of subsidy and regulation that would destroy their independence and quality. The two sides square off in this study.

 

ROBIN BERNHOFT, MD

 

Cyberschools - the rest of the story

Excerpt:  The Catholic Church teaches that parents bear primary responsibility for their children's education. This makes the government schools' "Parents as Partners" mantra a demotion in parental status. We parents are not "partners" with teachers; they work under our authority...

 

JAMES BOYES

 

Can Darkness Teach Light?

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Excerpt:  There is not one subject area left untouched by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything is seen through His mind and Spirit -- from the Biblical worldview, if you will.




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CHRIS CARDIFF

Education: What About the Poor?
Excerpt: In various forms, the question "what do we do about the poor?" outstrips all others as the most frequently asked question about separating school and state. The implicit assumption, only natural after 60 years of the welfare state and 150 years of government control of education, is that government is the only entity capable of looking out for the poor and educating them.


GORDON FRANCIS CORBETT

The Voucher Trap

Excerpt: After the Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers are Constitutional, some authorities said that vouchers are just as Constitutional as the G.I. Bill was. They are right, but not in the way they intend.


COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT

Not Yours to Give
from the Life of COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT
compiled by EDWARD S. ELLIS
One of two enchanting stories making a powerful point that bears on tax-funded vouchers.  This speaks to evil.  The other (The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp) to entrapment.



CATHY CUTHBERT

Losing Supreme Control

Excerpt: Vouchers have nothing to do with improving public schools and everything to do with controlling and thereby destroying private education. Even a proponent of vouchers admits the danger...

The Rise of the American Empire (en español)
Excerpt: If you are a regular reader of the literature of liberty, at some point you must have wondered how America acquired an empire. How did a national government based on the premise that all men are created equal, segue into the subjugation of men living in other countries? How did a people so profoundly uninterested in foreign people and foreign affairs become hoodwinked ...




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DOUGLAS DEWEY

How to Separate School and State: A Primer

Excerpt: A forceful case for eliminating the role of government in education has been stated in the previous article. This essay will provide an introductory answer to the "how" question. Efforts to achieve separation of school and state can be divided into three categories, by order of importance: entrepreneurial, educational, and political.

Playing at Markets: Vouchers as a Socialist Trap
Excerpt: Since I switched my opinion about vouchers some three years ago, I have found a number of arguments against them. But the strongest case by far is that vouchers are wrong for the same reason that government schooling is wrong.

Vouchers and Educational Freedom:  
A Debate between Joseph L. Bast & David Harmer vs. Douglas Dewey
Excerpt: Advocates of educational freedom disagree about whether school vouchers would liberate schools and families and lead to greater freedom of choice or trap private schools in a web of subsidy and regulation that would destroy their independence and quality. The two sides square off in this study.


TAMMY DRENNAN

A Parent's Pledge

A "truth in advertising" pledge. How will parents provide for the physical, spiritual, emotional and education needs of their children?

Dana Gioia Means Well, But...

Excerpt:  People in all parts of pre-government-schooling America enjoyed literature, art of various forms, music and other cultural enrichments as part of their uncompelled social lives. And the trend was growing.  So what has happened?

Education:  Let's Do Something Different

Excerpt:  Albert Einstein is credited with saying that if we wish to solve a problem, we cannot keep doing what it is we did in order to create the problem.

The Future of Education is Now
Excerpt:  Today, more parents than ever are investigating this inconsistency and concluding that they - and not the state - are the ones who should be shaping their children’s attitudes and worldviews, that they should be preparing their children to take over the helm of the government rather than having their children fitted as servants to it.


I Like This Feeling
Excerpt:  These are all stories I have personally heard from and discussed with parents. The grumblings of a few disaffected individuals, you think? As I mentioned, it’s the tip of the iceberg in my twenty-year collection of stories.


Jeff Jacoby Calls for Separation of School and State - AGAIN
Excerpt:  Responding to yet another high court decision that says parents have no rights regarding what their children are taught in public school, award-winning columnist Jeff Jacoby has publicly stated for the second time now that the only real solution to the war between parents and the state is for parents to go on the offense and take their children back.

NEA Lawyer: It's Not About Kids
Excerpt: Bob Chanin, a lawyer for the National Education Association, made it clear in a speech recently that the NEA is not about children but about the power to secure good pay and benefits for teachers. Not that the children don’t count at all (where would the NEA be without them?), but to tend to the children at the expense of employee perks would be “too high a price to pay.”

School Wars: Who Will Win?
If you’re a combatant, please give some thought to the following. If you know a combatant, please share this with him or her.

What does H.R. 3200 have to do with Education?
Health Care Bill endangers families and freedom of education: You can help.


CATHY DUFFY

Ten Benefits of School Liberation
By Marshall Fritz and Cathy Duffy, March 2002
What schools be like after transformation to school liberation!


BRANDON DUTCHER

Emerging 'Voucher Left' Could Alter School Choice Debate

Excerpt: He who pays the piper calls the tune... vouchers will come with strings attached which will emasculate private schools.

 


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EDWARD S. ELLIS

Not Yours to Give
from the Life of COLONEL DAVID CROCKETT
compiled by EDWARD S. ELLIS
One of two enchanting stories making a powerful point that bears on tax-funded vouchers.  This speaks to evil.  The other (The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp) to entrapment.




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FREDERICK C. FOOTE

On Being Salt and Light
ExcerptOur understanding of the Bible on this point suggests that quite the opposite conclusion may be true. If we really want our children to be salt and light in this world, the public school classroom may be the last place they should be.


MARSHALL FRITZ

A Practical Plan
Help parents remove their children from "public schools"
Excerpt
:  Momentary political victory in a period of crisis would be useless without victory in the hearts and minds of people. The Separation Alliance focuses on the necessary first step in accomplishing our mission-the building of a broad-based constituency for "Separation" ...

Adventures on the Road to Separation

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1996

 

Blacktop Pedagogy: Lessons Learned on the Road

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 7, August/September 1996

 

Bold New Vision of the Same Old Thing:
Bush's Education Program Repeats Past Failures
ExcerptEvery year, Lucy would convince Charlie Brown that this time she’d let him kick the football. After a bit of cajoling, good ol’ Charlie Brown would try again and “AAARGH!!”, our hero lies flat on his back... So it is with “education reform.” The politician says once again, “Trust me. This time we’re going to get it right!”

Can You Say "en-ti'-tle-ment?"
Excerpt: Prudence caused my switch away from vouchers; later, Principle ignited passion; now, political Practicality also convinces me that tax-funded vouchers are a bad idea.

Cement Canoe, The
Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1995

Euphemisms mislead - Bluntness needed
Excerpt: Bobbie Gentry, of Jumping-off-the-Tallahatchie-Bridge fame, once told me, "Euphemism is a euphemism for lying"...

Four Ways Vouchers Harm Education
ExcerptThese four factors will change the culture of the private school to be more like today's government school. In other words, when the "Choice" advocates succeed, they won't enjoy the choice they are left with because the private schools will have become merely government schools run by private operators.

Freedom Lovers Against Tax-Funded Vouchers
List of prominent freedom-lovers who oppose tax-funded vouchers (1996).

Freedom Lovers For Tax-Funded Vouchers
List of prominent freedom-lovers who favor tax-funded vouchers (1996).


Just Like Curious George
Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1996

Learning about Schooling in Rural Colombia
(en español)
Excerpt: A third-grade girl in a rural two-room schoolhouse surprised me with her answer to the question of why she likes her school: Because the students are taught that learning is their job and that the job of the teacher is mostly to help the students become self-teachers...

More Practicalities of Separating School & State
Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1996

Practicalities of Separating School & State
Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 5, February 1996 

Red Pajamas, Blue Pajamas
Excerpt: In order to improve education, American parents must again be responsible for their children's education. This means nothing less than ending state, federal, and local government involvement with the financing and content of K-12 schooling. This will allow parents to make real decisions, not just choose between red pajamas and blue pajamas.

Restoring Parental Responsibility for Education
Excerpt: It is apparent why we have such an epidemic of parental irresponsibility: government has become the great enabler of irresponsibility and dependence. How to begin to cure it? …

Satan Has No Brakes
By Marshall Fritz and E. Ray Moore, Jr.
Excerpt: Government schools teach students — for 180 days each year for 13 years — that eternity is so unimportant that it's not worth mentioning... Government schools accelerate the failing culture in undermining Christian parents. They eradicate hope. They maximize alienation.

SepCon '96 - Rolling Back the "Teacher-State"

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 8, October 1996

 

Sunday School, Monday School
Neither is the Business of Government (en español)
Excerpt
: Some people think that the American "public school system" is broken so they try to fix it. The truth is that public schooling is not broken. Rather, it is succeeding in its main objective — strengthen government by undermining parents...


Ten Benefits of School Liberation
By Marshall Fritz and Cathy Duffy, March 2002
What schools be like after transformation to school liberation!

Ten Good Reasons for Free Market Schooling
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Excerpt: Free Market Schooling means educational services are offered without compulsion or subsidy by any level of government. This means repealing the compulsion of financing, attendance, content, and state regulation of teachers and institutions that are central to today's "public schooling"...

Vouchers Are Bad News for Freedom Lovers
Excerpt: Conservatarians must see that there's no way to get good education based on coercion.

We're Winning!

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Spring 2001

Who's Responsible for Children's Education, Their Parents or the State?

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 3, No. 2, February/March 1997

 

Why We Won't Hush: A Response to Bast and Harmer

Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 8, October 1996

 


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DAVID HARMER

Vouchers and Educational Freedom:  
A Debate between Joseph L. Bast & David Harmer vs. Douglas Dewey

Excerpt: Advocates of educational freedom disagree about whether school vouchers would liberate schools and families and lead to greater freedom of choice or trap private schools in a web of subsidy and regulation that would destroy their independence and quality. The two sides square off in this study.


SHARON HARRIS

They Pry Them from Our Cold Dead Fingers  
Excerpt:  And suddenly I realize that just about everyone in the room allows government workers to come every day and take away something—something far more precious than any piece of metal.


DAVID R. HENDERSON

How I Found Myself Squirming Uncomfortably in Support of Tax-Funded Education Vouchers, An Interview with David R. Henderson

Excerpt: From 1968, when I first read an article by Milton Friedman, until early 1995. I liked the idea [of tax-funded vouchers] because I thought they would reduce the role of government in education.

 

HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION

Reasons Home Schoolers Should Avoid Government Vouchers

Excerpt: If no strings are attached to vouchers, why waste the time and money sending tax dollars through a complicated bureaucracy only to be returned to the parents?

 

BONNIE J. HORN

Give to Caesar What is Caesars’s

Excerpt: ...greed took hold in my heart. I had discovered that "Caesar" (the state government) would fund our home school efforts via an independent study charter school. We were promised funding... as long as... We could teach doctrine "on your own time"... I was choosing to pull out of the private sector and place over our schooling efforts an authority that required me to separate God within our home. I would have been teaching our children a double standard: God is O.K. for home but not for our school.

 

JACOB G. HORNBERGER

Vouchers Are Just Another Welfare Scheme

Excerpt: If proponents of school vouchers get their way, Americans might well be permanently saddled with one of the most massive government welfare programs in history.

 

J. H. HUEBERT

The School Voucher Myth

Excerpt: Keep in mind that these [voucher advocates] are not evil men, plotting the destruction of freedom. Indeed, they are sincere, honorable men of good will, with the best of intentions, but mistaken.



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E. RAY MOORE, JR.

Satan Has No Brakes
By Marshall Fritz and E. Ray Moore, Jr.
Excerpt: Government schools teach students — for 180 days each year for 13 years — that eternity is so unimportant that it's not worth mentioning... Government schools accelerate the failing culture in undermining Christian parents. They eradicate hope. They maximize alienation.

 


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NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS - PALMDALE CASE

Do Parents Have Rights?

Comment: Most parents of public school students probably assume they have certain rights,even if those rights are not always honored. They may not realize that the courts have addressed this issue a number of times and have concluded that once parents deliver their children to the front door of a public school, the parents and the children both forfeit many rights they'd normally have.

 

GARY NORTH

Educational Vouchers: The Double Tax

Excerpt: We are continually bombarded by newspaper and magazine headlines informing us of the continuing "crisis in education," which actually is a crisis in government-operated education.

 

JAMES ERVIN NORWOOD

Great Brain Robbery Seizes Millions of Minds
Hijackers Are Supported by Organized Ignorance

Excerpt: Public schools are brain dead and on life support; so let’s pull the plug on them, give them a decent funeral, and let better alternatives take root and flourish.

 

MARY K. NOVELLO, Ed.D.

Compulsory Attendance

Excerpt: The impact of compulsory education laws and their enforcement is most profound on religious schools and home schoolers, although it should be noted that all the data indicate that children who attend private schools, religious schools, or are home schooled perform better on nationally standardized tests than their public school counterparts.



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T. C. PINCKNEY

We Are Losing Our Children

Remarks to the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee by T. C. Pinckney, Nashville, TN, September 18, 2001.
 


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LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL, JR.

Vouchers: Another Name for Welfare

Excerpt: So here is the essence of the program approved by the Supreme Court. It takes taxes paid by the earning classes to give to poor parents who enjoy an exclusive right to leave public schools they weren’t paying for anyway to attend private schools which now accept controls over admissions and tuition and curriculum (becoming public schools, in effect).

 


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STEVE SMITH

Separation Not Only for Libertarians and Christians, Anymore

Excerpt: For three decades now, the answer to the "problem" of religious diversity in the schools has been a hypersensitive neutrality that has pleased few.



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LINDA SCHROCK TAYLOR 

Double-Dipping:
Special Education & Medicaid

Excerpt: The aspect of Medicaid with which I deal is this: public schools are encouraged to believe that special education teachers provide medical services, and so public schools are filing claims with Medicaid. These pseudo-claims are actually being paid...

No Exit:
The "Black Hole" of Special Education 
Excerpt: Every year, thousands of our children disappear into the vagueness of special placements, never to be released from the labels and stigma; never to escape and again be seen as "normal"...

No Exit: Statistics 
A follow-up article that discusses "black-hole" statistics.


 





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MICHIEL VISSER

Public Education versus Liberty:
The Pedigree of an Idea

Excerpt:  That education is in a state of crisis has become something of an axiom. Parents and politicians alike are deeply concerned about the state of our schools. Parents because their children come home from school without the ability to read or write or do sums properly, politicians because infuriated parents threaten political revolt to punish those held responsible.


 


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THOMAS WASHBURNE, ESQ

Vouchers: Constitutional But Dangerous

Excerpt: Vouchers are not equivalent to cash. By their very nature, vouchers are susceptible to government control and strings.



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STEVEN YATES

Refuting the Voucherites

Excerpt: What is different about the voucher program decided in Zelman, however, is that the voucher goes directly to the parents and not to any school. However, in light of the recent avalanche of federal education legislation, especially Bush's No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, does this difference actually make a difference?



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The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp
How a trapper from North Dakota outsmarted the wild hogs.  One of two enchanting stories making a powerful point that bears on tax-funded vouchers.  This speaks to entrapment.  The other (Not Yours to Give) to evil.



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