Cokely wants his tax dollars back. Another try for public funding of private schools.

How many parishes credit parish donations to the catholic school tuition of the students whose family made the original donation to the parish--and the parents then claimed the parish donation as an itemized income tax deduction. Have catholic friends who told me this common.

A few years back our local 6A public high school had an outstanding advaced studies program--assume they still do. Thinking I might want to become a teacher after a change of careers, I monitored several of these classes. They were discussing "stuff" I had not seen in college math, chemistry, and biology. Students at the local Catholic HS attended these AS classes, plus other classs subjects not presented in their HS. No objection to their attendance, parents paid taxes--but do not think the district got credit for them for the State allocation.