Taxpayer funded Catholic schools? What's next?

Catechism instead of atheism?

Mixing religion with politics is never a good idea.

CS: On this, I completely agree with you.

Cináed. You always did go for the easy buck,
with that lazy, lugubrious, lamentable, non-existent style of yours.
The Catholic and Református iskola in my village are both struggling to survive.
Is Viktor Orban trying to save money by putting the onus of education on the Church in an attempt to save money - hoping that the Pope will foot the bill?
In many villages across Hungary,the churches of both denominations, need help.
Teachers on low pay with no self esteem and seemingly no future turn up each day and I take one glance at their sad, miserable faces, and despair, myself.
The children have to make do with run down schools, poor equipment, and shoddy classrooms.
Local administration is useless at every level. No money, no standards, the usual massive corruption scandals. Amateur and impoverished governance that has changed little in fifty years.
And, judging by the information contained in the article above, little is likely to change for another fifty...

@Cat... You could just as easily be describing the
situation inside the Church; one big difference is
that there are more kids in the school than
believers in the pews.

gosh. again...damned if you do, damned if you don't. so if I wrote a big long post detailing my reasons for why I felt the way I did, that would be too much of a burden for the semi-literate members of the community. ...so I write something short and to the point, and oh no, that's lazy.
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I just think it's a bad idea for public money to be going to a religious organisation...and especially the Catholic church.This is not an 'anti-religious' sentiment, but rather the simple fact that the Catholic church is already rolling in money and it seems wrong to me to be giving them large amounts of public money, when they already get the huge advantage of being able to increase their influence by taking over schools.I sympathise with the teachers because I know that it does happen that religion based schools assert control over the lives of the employees and I just don't see that as fair.With all the talk of equality going around, it is awfully 'unequal' to impose values, practices, behaviours and ideologies on people who up till now have chosen for one reason or another not to put their children in religious schools. To do so, to me, rings of 'brainwashing', of autocracy, a return to an attempt at large scale social engineering.The answer is not to turn schools over to someone else, the answer is to fix the state education system and make it work properly.

semi-literate? Cináed. You waffling windbag. Everything you write, reads like a dissertation for your PhD, (Sociology Bimbo) or whatever.
Please supply information on how much taxpayer's money the Church of the Catholic faith will receive to educate the kids and how their curriculum will differ from the existing one?
We would like to do our own calculations on spending.
The municipality spent how much on the schools
in previous times? What is the budget now?
And, how are these schools going to get enough money in order that they can be dragged out of the
19th-century? That is to say, the Dickens' Dotheboys Hall, brand of schooling:
How do you spell 'winders,' Smike?
W -I- N -D- E- R- S, sir.
Yes. They need cleaning. So get to it!
BTW.Some folk closed the curtains on real life a long time ago.

With the recent history of abuse by the catholic church, this surley will give them carte blac again for an opportunity to abuse our kids, parents, watch out, we will have to watch these pedophiles like hawks. The government needs to think about what they are doing.

Anonymous: I'm not sure that comment was really fair. I do agree that there are systemic problems in the catholic church regarding the conduct of their priesthood, but to tar all of them with the same brush is not right. The catholic church also does a great many good things in the world and it's very sad that the only thing that ever gets said about them lately is scandal.
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My argument here is not to do with opposing the catholic church, it is just that I don't think you should ever hand over the education of your nation to an organisation that has no obligation to the people of that nation. I would feel the same regardless of what religious (or corporate for that matter) organisation that might be.
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If the catholic church were to open more schools in Hungary I'd have no problem with that, as long as they did it on their own time and with their own money.