A plumber is not working on the hearts, minds, and souls of children. The last I checked, my household or business plumbing did not have eternal souls.
And...it is impossible to provide an education that doesn’t influence the hearts, minds, and souls of children. A religiously neutral education is impossible!!!!
When teachers agree to teach children they **are** agreeing to influence the direction that the hearts, minds, and souls of children will take. It is impossible not to do otherwise. There are NO religiously neutral subjects, There are no religiously neutral schools. It is impossible.
Your classroom, that by law is godless in its worldview, is NOT religiously neutral in content or consequences for the children or our nation.
Now, which religious world-view should I include in my math classroom? Catholic? Mormon? Jewish? Baptist? Muslim? Do we venerate the Dali Lama?
As a teacher, I try to model and encourage values that we'd all like to see in children: honesty, kindness, gratitude, respect... teaching the path to heaven is a duty of parents, not teachers.