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Originally Posted by Garden guru
There's a difference between being legal and being ethical. Too bad so many Villagers talk a good talk about being fine, upstanding Christians and insist on pledging "one nation under God" but find nothing wrong with this kind of preferential treatment for employees' children. Reminds me of some certain Pharisees who were really good at quoting the Law but didn't have a clue about what God really required. Which children would Jesus think were not worthy of a high quality education? Would you deny Charter School admission to the boy Jesus because his parents didn't work in The Villages? As you do it to the least of these children, you do it to Him. Legality has nothing to do with it. It may be legal, but it's clearly WRONG!
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The children are not denied an education in this area. Many people who work for The Villages do so in part to allow their children to go to the Charter schools.
I learned long ago that I myself could make things better for my children if I tried.
I found that the harder my husband and I worked, denied ourselves luxuries, the more choices we had for our children.
The people who teach at the local public schools are good teachers and dedicated people too.
Many of us climbed up from a fair public education and made a success of our lives through working hard.
Many villagers volunteer in the public schools classrooms and there are MANY, many, programs collecting food and money for the back pack programs for the public schools. We had a speaker, a teacher from one of our local schools who told us what a difference people who lived in The Villages made in public education..
You would be surprised and happy to see the good that our town does for public education. And know the many people who care.
I try each day to figure out what God "really requires".
None of us will know until the time comes.