Teaching Tuesday: How do I get on this Gravy Train?

There are those who complain that Congress does not care about the concerns of the little guy. But those people do not attend Alaska Christian College.

The school, founded five years ago and affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church, has 37 students. It is not accredited and does not grant degrees. It offers, instead, certificates in biblical studies at the end of a student's first year and certificates in biblical and general studies to those who complete a second. Over the past two years, Congress has given the school more than $1 million. [. . .]

[T]he school's most important critics these days are 3,600 miles away in Wisconsin, where the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing the Education Department to rescind the funding.

The advocacy group, which supports maintaining a strict separation between church and state, contends in a lawsuit filed last month that the subsidies amount to an unconstitutional government endorsement of a religion. The government is allowed to give money to schools with religious affiliations. But the money must be used for secular purposes--which, the group contends, the Alaska school does not have.

"It has no purpose except to proselytize. It is not, truly, a college. It doesn't even offer math or English," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, the group's co-president. [. . .] ACC President Keith Hamilton rejected those complaints, pointing to the school's course offerings--choir, physical education, a class in leadership--that he said have little to do with religion

Your tax dollars at work, people.

So, do you think I should get about 40 kids, run them around a track (for Jesus!) and give them bibles, and start raking in the money? That has to be easier than my current 60-hour weeks at low pay trying to teach, you know, English to the kids who haven't been arrested yet for fighting . . .