Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build N.J. Temple

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3. Kind of like my catholic neighbor being forced to volunteer a certain number of hours a week to

get schooling for her 3 kids, by participating in raising funds for the church by making and selling cakes etc. (she otherwise couldn't afford it, and would have to send her kids to the normal 'public' schools)?

One of my neighbors just moved from the city of STLMO to the county so her two young boys can attend school in a better school district, she couldn't afford the tuition of a private school (catholic or otherwise) so she moved away from the city.

Over the 40 years I lived in STLMO, this was a common occurrence, that when the young children got old enough to go to school, the young couple would sell their STLMO home and move away (to where a better school district was, where the overall cost was still 'reasonable'). Apparently tuition at a catholic school has gone up thought the roof, for when I first moved into STLMO, there were literally thousands of young kids dressed up in their uniforms, walking to catholic school (compared to now, very low numbers), and now you don't really see many such students. I do know that the church has closed facilities because of the cost of keeping such places open, even the church has faced increasing costs in running things.

I do somewhat understand when parents are unable to afford private schooling and tuition for kids that they'll jump through hoops and such to get their kids into 'better' schools but when there are public schools available (they are already paying for via real estate taxes), and the majority of kids go to a public school, well, that's fine, IMHO. If anything, people need to concentrate on making the public schools better instead of fleeing the public school system, stay and help fix their own school systems. This is my only gripe about this whole thing. If you have an issue, then help fix the problem, don't run away.

Now the parents may wish to continue their kids indoctrination into their religious beliefs/work ethics, that's their right of course. It's just that I've seen them sell their home and move away (to a better school system), instead of resolving the issue(s) and the problem(s) seem to drag on and on even more so/more longer then if more resources were available to deal w/ issues.