On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, A. Melon wrote:
"Because the school accepts no government aid and prohibits its students from doing the same, it has the right to discriminate on the basis of religion."
from a story http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap170.htm about a college for home-schoolers.
Re: why govt subsidized arenas have to be neutral wrt who you kiss, a recent thread here.
Somebody might then argue that education received in a private institution cannot be guaranteed to include social/moral/whatever lessons which are to be expected in a society and so private education should not be recognized as valid. Of course, this is nonsensical from an American point of view. From a Finnish one, not as clearly - Finnish universities and far over 90% of schools are governmental institutions, so making the above move would force people to attend a public school in order to be eligible for further education. In fact, private schools based on the Steiner and Montessori pedagogies fought quite a fight to be recognized, here. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university