Private School Vouchers in North Carolina Unconstitutional?

A North Carolina judge is ordering a stop to the use of taxpayer money to pay for tuition at private or religious schools.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood ruled Thursday that the program (Opportunity Scholarship...OM) is unconstitutional on several levels.

Hobgood says the program pays for students to attend schools that are not obliged to meet state curriculum requirements, violating the state constitution's guarantee for students to have an opportunity to a sound basic education.(This statement alone should make a Patriot and any lawyer question this decision, just because a school does not want to adopt the Common Core curriculum does not mean that a child is not being given the opportunity for a sound education. It seems that millions of American had an opportunity for a basic education LONG before Common Core...OM)

Hobgood said it's also unconstitutional for public funds to go to privately run and managed schools. (The first question someone should ask, "WHY NOT?" Why do public funds go to build stadiums, are they not privately owned and managed? As Justice Black wrote in upholding Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township. et. Al (1947) which dealt with busing "...(The) concept of using tax funds for the payment of police and fire who are paid from tax funds to protect both public and parochial students. Basically, “... state cannot tax A to reimburse B for the cost of transporting his children to church schools. This is said to violate the due process clause because the children are sent to these church schools to satisfy the personal desires of their parents, rather than the public's interest in the general education of all children. This argument, if valid, would apply equally to prohibit state payment for the transportation of children to any nonpublic school, whether operated by a church or any other non government individual or group.” In this case, North Carolina is not taxing A to send B's children to a private school, EVERYONE is being taxed for schools INCLUDING those who don't have children. Now, how about those who want to send their children to private just not pay that portion of property taxes that is used for public schools and use it to fund their choice of schools?...OM)

The judge said money must stop flowing to private schools as of Thursday morning. It's not clear if some of the money was already distributed earlier this week as planned and whether that must be reimbursed.

Source: http://www.news-record.com/news/report-judge-rules-n-c-school-voucher-program-unconstitutional/article_d0806368-293d-11e4-9433-001a4bcf6878.html

Let me know what you think and please check out "The War Nobody Saw Coming - The First Attack" to see how the war of Christmas and religion REALLY began and why.

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