While this language is encouraging, the history of government-private relations tells a different story. If we allow them to put their foot in the door, it is the nature of the beast to establish its presence and start dictating regulations to one degree or another. So, unintentionally, government scholarship programs would risk increasing federal control when our goal is to increase local and parental control and to eliminate any federal role. There is an inherent problem with the religious and moral dimension to education in government schools. Even if government schools were controlled by Christians, it would still amount to the same type of indoctrination that currently is happening with secular humanism.
Freedom of religion is essential to our culture.
If religion and morality is an inevitable and vital dimension of education, then only when parents are free to choose and schools are free to teach, can this dimension function properly. Because government scholarships could be used to attend government schools, and private schools risk federal intervention, government scholarship programs do not ensure a prominent role for religion and morality in education. As to taxation, compulsory funding of schools would remain the status quo. For example, if a middle class, single-parent mom, who is ineligible for a government scholarship, determines that it is in the best interest of her child to attend a private school, she is still forced to keep paying for the government school she is not using. In addition, the education bureaucracy is only likely to increase its wasteful spending of hard-earned dollars.