Few conservatives, even here on Free Republic, understand that government schooling and the First Amendment and freedom of conscience are ( and always will be) in conflict. Why?
Answer: Because it is **impossible** to have a religiously, politically, and culturally neutral education. Such a state of philosophic neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient human.
Answer: The worldview of the most politically powerful will be imposed on the children who are under police threat to attend the government school.
There is only one solution: Begin the process of privatizing all schooling. The ultimate goal must be complete separation of SCHOOL and state!
Thanks for replying wintertime.
As I had mentioned in a related thread the informal main purpose of public schools is to babysit the kids for working parents. And parents are too tired at the end of the day to ask their children what they learned in school, kids likely never hearing their teachers explain the fedreal government’s constitutionally limited powers.