When did our society start to decay? What happened?

[Leonthecat]

Low blow, possibly racist. But I'll allow

Are the Irish a race?

 

[Irish]

1 in 3 women are victims of violence. 1 in 3 women do not have graduate degrees.

So you are saying women are too dumb to know how to get out of violent relationships?

 

[Oracle Of JPP 714]

Do I trust monsanto? no.

Monsanto's control of the seeds has created o breed of pseudo sharecroppers.

I don't trust government census statistics.

Maybe I ought to be posting this at "conspiracies".

You win this debate. I lose. I conseed.

 

[Flash]

When the government started trusting the supernatural (god)
over the constitution. "In god we trust " on all our money.
Can anyone see the irony here? Political religious organizations tax free?

Non-profit organizations are tax free. It would be unconstitutional only to make churches tax free.

 

[Flash]

lol.....you're another Watermark..........I don't think there are any active voucher programs anywhere right now......

D. C. has federally mandated vouchers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.e000f983f553

 

[Flash]

That was just a symptom.

The decay started when prayer was taken out of our schools.

Only government required prayer was prohibited in schools. Students can pray all they want.

 

[Oracle Of JPP 714]

D. C. has federally mandated vouchers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.e000f983f553

Now that would not happen with lobster vouchers.

 

[Oracle Of JPP 714]

Non-profit organizations are tax free. It would be unconstitutional only to make churches tax free.

Too many churches are too involved in political agendas.

Pat Robertson is a billionaire, go figure.

A hell of a lot of charities give very little to charities.

Remember the portrait the trump charity bought with its funds? A very ugly picture, I might add.

 

[Flash]

Now that would not happen with lobster vouchers.

What would lobsters do with vouchers?

 

[Flash]

Too many churches are too involved in political agendas.

Pat Robertson is a billionaire, go figure.

A hell of a lot of charities give very little to charities.

Remember the portrait the trump charity bought with its funds? A very ugly picture, I might add.

The Constitution prohibits government involvement in religion. It does not prohibit religious involvement in government and politics. I think non-profits only have to give about 5% to qualify. A non-profit does not have to be a charity.

 

[Oracle Of JPP 714]

What would lobsters do with vouchers?

Probably burn them so they wouldn't get boiled alive.

 

[Oracle Of JPP 714]

The Constitution prohibits government involvement in religion. It does not prohibit religious involvement in government and politics. I think non-profits only have to give about 5% to qualify. A non-profit does not have to be a charity.

you're right but it's still wrong to do that kinda shit.

 

[Flash]

you're right but it's still wrong to do that kinda shit.

Wrong to be involved in politics?

 

[CFM]

So, IOW, you hate yourself for being black and being addicted to Jewish cock.

Got it. Thanks for clearing that up.

STFU nigger.

 

[CFM]

Utterly irrelevant to what I posted, self-hating black woman. The conservative republicans exhibit the exact behavior that I cited, quite apart from your own personal opinion.

You're really not very good at this.

I'm far better at anything in life than you ever will be. Ask your wife.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

What do you expect? It's a given. It's what people do on debate forum, sugar lips.

then why are you blaming me?......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

D. C. has federally mandated vouchers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.e000f983f553

Obama stopped those with an executive order, didn't he......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Only government required prayer was prohibited in schools. Students can pray all they want.

there never was such a creature as "government required prayer"........

 

[RB 60]

there never was such a creature as "government required prayer"........

I don't recall schools ever requiring prayer either, do you?

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Obama stopped those with an executive order, didn't he......

Obama cancelled the program by executive order in 2009

Congress passed a bill reinstating it in 2011

Obama refused to issue appropriations for it

DC attempted to do it on its own but finally stopped in 2016 because they couldn't afford it.....


Support and success
The program has received support from a number of prominent D.C. politicians, including former mayor Anthony A. Williams, former D.C. Council member Kevin P. Chavous and former D.C. Board of Education president Peggy Cooper Cafritz.[1] It was opposed by Mayor Vincent C. Gray.[10]

In 2010, a randomized controlled trial conducted under the auspices of the Department of Education examined the impacts of the OSP students. While the study reported that there "is no conclusive evidence that the OSP affected student achievement," the program was found to have a significant impact on graduation rates.[11] Students who were offered vouchers had a graduation rate of 82%, while those who actually used their vouchers had a graduation rate of 91%. By comparison, the rate for students who did not receive vouchers was only 70%. The study received the Department of Education’s highest rating for scientific rigor.[12] Over 90% of the study’s participants were African American, and most of the remainder were Latino American.

Further research found that students who received vouchers were 25% more likely to enroll in college than students with similar demographic characteristics who did not receive vouchers.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._Opportunity_Scholarship_Program
the analysis you quoted from the Washington Post must have been for the unfunded version.......that may be why it wasn't working as well as it used to......