CDR: Re: no fedbucks means freedom

[Sampo A Syreeni]

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 at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university