[ladylib]

It's in preschools too:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0403/jjacobs042503.asp

Honestly, after yesterday's court case condoning the teaching if Islam in California public schools and now this, I don't know why parents don't get off their butts and pull their kids out. Well, I really know why: they need to dump their kids someplace and it's "free."

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the link - it reminded me that I lost my Education Intelligence Agency newsletter when I changed e-mail addresses; now I'm back on!

[Graymatter]

>>...why parents don't get off their butts and pull their kids out....they need to dump their kids someplace and it's "free."

I would say that's often true, though many parents must work and have no choice in the matter.
There's no private school in my little town (except for fundamentalist Muslims). In my child's grade level, the public school teaches history for about ten minutes out of a year, no I'm not exaggerating, I asked. I'd go without a lot of luxuries to cover that educational shortcoming, and I do. But many parents can't do that, or are too young or unimaginative to realize they can and should.