Word: moralizers
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...Public schools are supposed to teach civic values, but they need to integrate a stronger call to moral virtues like charity, self-discipline and integrity. It is nearly impossible, however, to find agreement on how this should be done, and whether these virtues require a religious component. Schools are caught in a political tug-of-war between church leaders and humanists, facing the daunting task of creating religious neutrality while teaching strong moral values. Those whose beliefs and opportunities are hurt most are poor families whose children are forced into failing urban schools and cannot afford an alternative...
...send their children to private or religious academies instead of dilapidated government schools. Policies that allow parents to choose a religious curriculum for their child will ensure real freedom of religion where beliefs are not marginalized or degraded, but encouraged. In seeking to both improve education and provide moral foundations, success lies in political solutions that emphasize parents’ ability to choose among schools and promote healthy competition among institutions...
...Black Alliance for Educational Options likes to say, “School choice is widespread, unless you’re poor.” We should adopt policies that empower poor parents and create opportunities for their children. Real school choice will help make high-quality academic and moral education available to poor families...
...Despite decades of ostensible “reform” and ballooning budgets, urban schools, even more than other public schools, remain awash in moral and academic failure. They are perpetuating segregation, intolerance, inequality and religious discrimination, while poor parents plead for the opportunity to send their children elsewhere. Can we really tell them to “just wait” for another round of reforms, hoping the bureaucrats do it right this time? It is easy to say “wait” when one’s parents can afford private school and when the government...
...Delaying school choice any longer and prolonging parents’ powerlessness is an intolerable injustice by which America condemns itself to endure the cancerous growths of racism, mediocrity and moral decay...