June 13, 2005

Wood County Christian School and Rep. Capito (R-WV)

I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a feature story on Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the only Republican in West Virginia's congressional delegation, and possibly the GOPer who will challenge Sen. Robert Byrd in next year's election. Part of the story involved how the Congresswoman spent her day, whom she met with, etc. One of the groups she met with was a group of students who attend Wood County Christian School. Capito doesn't represent that area - these students (and/or their teachers and administrators) wanted to meet with her instead of the Congressman who does represent their area of the state because she is a Republican and he is not.

I think it's important to keep little stories like this in mind as we consider the degree to which public money should go to religious schools. Put another way Atrios is right to criticize Kevin for being a bit naive. Schools like this have an agenda that's quite different from that found in public schools.

Posted by armand at June 13, 2005 10:14 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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