TheGoldberryBombadil t1_jeesx40 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:23 PM

Reply to comment by somedudevt in Vermont House advances stricter regulations on private schools taking public tuition by casewood123

I mean, it sounds like this bill is intended to address exactly this situation, and I am sorry that happened to you. But I don't think it's fair to call kids that attend St. Johnsbury, Lyndonville, Burr and Burton, Thetford, "little Adolfs". These are just normal Vermont kids from normal Vermont families.

somedudevt t1_jeeulig wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:34 PM

Oh no they aren’t… they are normal. But it also impacts schools like the one that just forfeited it’s basketball season because they hate LGBT people and those kids are on a path to being little adolfs.

TheGoldberryBombadil t1_jeev4dr wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:38 PM

No, that's a private religious school that does NOT receive public funding. Our tax dollars do not go to those schools. And this bill only applies to schools that receive public funding, so it has nothing to do with the private religious schools!

Kixeliz t1_jefgh99 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:57 PM

> No, that's a private religious school that does NOT receive public funding.

Yet. They sure are trying like hell, though.

https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/17/in-bid-for-state-approval-religious-schools-seek-to-sidestep-anti-discrimination-laws/

> But now, a pair of religious schools are testing that rule. In applications to the State Board of Education last month, the heads of two Vermont Christian schools sought approval for tuition money — but hinted that they might not follow all of Vermont’s anti-discrimination laws.

One of those two Christian schools? The same Mid-Vermont school that forfeit over a trans opponent.

TheGoldberryBombadil t1_jefh9d7 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:02 PM

Well, and there's the rub. Those schools can't (or shouldn't be able to) accept public funding without abiding by the public rules. Which makes such obvious sense. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

Kixeliz t1_jefi1iw wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:07 PM

You would think, but then the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that school voucher programs can't discriminate against schools because of their religious practices. So that's why these Vt. schools are trying to force their way into public dollars.