Word: schools
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...article, the Rev. Neil G. McCluskey argues for Government aid to parochial schools in providing for bus transportation, textbooks and health services. He contends that these services can be extended without violating church-state separation. But if the U.S. Government started to buy textbooks, provide transportation and maintain health services, then the trend would be to throw more and more parochial-school expenses on the Government. Thus it would provide a way for state-supported religious institutions, hence a fusion of church and state. MAX G. PHILLIPS Berrien Springs, Mich...
...getting an education. It is morally wrong and improper for a state to insist that in getting that aid the children must submit to an unreligious education. The solution will be to extend the aid to the parents directly, so that they may place their children in such schools as they deem proper. Free choice in education is the essence of the G.I. plan; the Government gives the assistance, but does not require the recipient to attend a Government school. Why should state educational assistance differ? ANTHONY W. DALY Alton...
...know the difference between teacher and student because the almighty administration didn't trouble to orient them on this nice point), I shout hurrah! hurrah! migawd, hurrah! for James Worley [Dec. 7]. Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled lesson plans. HAROLD A. DE PUY ex-Pearl River High School Spring Valley...
Federal Aid to Education: He favors aid for school construction and scholarship programs "where there is proven need...
...School Segregation: The Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregation was an "affirmation and clarification of the essential liberties and the abiding principles by which America must live...