{"id":18428,"date":"2021-08-29T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18428"},"modified":"2021-08-29T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:01:41","slug":"overnight-news-whats-weirder-than-an-atheists-send-up-of-church-how-about-a-lifelong-libertarian-singing-the-praises-of-some-tax-funded-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18428\/overnight-news-whats-weirder-than-an-atheists-send-up-of-church-how-about-a-lifelong-libertarian-singing-the-praises-of-some-tax-funded-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: What\u2019s weirder than an atheist\u2019s send-up of church? How about a lifelong libertarian singing the praises of (some) tax-funded\u00a0education?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cHeres what\u2019s wrong with TV: 1. Not enough dogs. 2. Not enough barking. 3. Never enough\u00a0doorbells.\u201d<\/p><\/div>I’m an atheist, but I really like the idea of church, and I wish we had better ways of doing church. In the same kind of seemingly schizoid way, I hate the public schools, not alone because they are tax-funded, but I love charter schools, even though they are tax-funded.<\/p>\n

Here’s the why for both: Ds civilization is a friendly competition among fathers to do everything better \u2013 especially fatherhood.<\/p>\n

When a lot of Ds and Cs dads live near each other \u2013 in what we used to call a neighborhood \u2013 their awareness of each other leads each of them to better and better performances as fathers: Better providers, better homesteaders, better handymen, better coaches \u2013 better at<\/em> everything at home and therefore better for<\/em> everyone at home and in the world at large.<\/p>\n

Better for their wives and children, too, it should go without saying. Moms compete with other moms when they can \u2013 meaning when dad has provided so well that mom can stay at home for kith and kin. And dance lessons and little league and summer camps and soap-box derbies are all made possible by Ds and Cs dads \u2013 prosperous enough to pay for it, loving enough to stay for it.<\/p>\n

Churches and charter schools recreate that good-neighbors environment without the neighborhoods. By their being, they engender communities of like minds in which dads, moms and kids can all strive to do better together.<\/p>\n

Churches are families of families, the fallback for failing families, much as the family is the fallback for failing individuals. Plus which, your church is the ideal place for your kids to meet their lifelong mates: Opposites might attract, but it’s shared values and expectations that go the distance.<\/p>\n

And shared values and expectations are what unite kids from charter schools: All<\/em> of the parents are serious about education, the curriculum itself is sound, and results matter, since the stock-in-trade \u2013 the children \u2013 is fungible. Good charter schools have branch locations all over. Bad charter schools get bought Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHeres what\u2019s wrong with TV: 1. Not enough dogs. 2. Not enough barking. 3. Never enough\u00a0doorbells.\u201dI’m an atheist, but I really like the idea of church, and I wish we had better ways of doing church. In the same kind of seemingly schizoid way, I hate the public schools, not alone because they are tax-funded, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14590,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14590\/more-thrilling-real-estate-math-from-the-national-association-of-realtors-how-much-did-first-time-home-buyers-benefit-from-their-8000-tax-funded-subsidy-can-you-count-to-negative-15000\/","url_meta":{"origin":18428,"position":0},"title":"More thrilling real estate math from the National Association of Realtors: How much did first-time home-buyers benefit from their $8,000 tax-funded subsidy? 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