Public Funding in Church Schools: An Examination

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1. How do you view the use of public funds to support certain activities in church schools? Do you see a trend toward “excessive entanglement”? Where do you see the line needing to be drawn so as not to conflict with the establishment clause?
Since 39 percent of students are enrolled in parochial schools, I think that having public funds to support activities like transportation, books, standardized testing and scoring, diagnostic services and therapeutic and remedial services is fine since with these the government is not actually advocating for the religion (262-263). Seen the cases that are related to public funds provided for private education in the U.S. Supreme court, I do see that repeatedly there has been an attempt to having “excessive entanglement”. When the government starts to get involve in trying to provide funds for schools like we can observe in the Lemon v. Kurtzman is when a conflict occurs (263). It is hard to tell when the establishment clause tolerates since there are not many specifics and falls under the judgment of people, but when the government starts to get to involve in creating a school district for a particular religion (e.g. Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet) it clearly conflict with the clause.
2. In Ingraham v. Writgh (1997), the U.S. …show more content…

It would be find if students send you their work via email, since in some occasions they may not be able to go to school for long periods of time. Allowing the use of cell phones during class gives a lot of opportunities for cheating; therefore they should not be allowed. Furthermore, cell phones allowed easier access to social media and to “sexting” (p. 281). I will allow students to use class computers for assignments, since this computers are safer and is harder for students to gain access to inappropriate cites. It also all depends on school

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