[Left2Right]

"I think somehow the whole concept of educational freedom needs to be brought before the Supreme Court in a lawsuit."

I don't think getting the government even more involved is the answer. I'm glad you are home-schooling. One thing I have noticed since I started going back to college a few years ago (to pursue a second degree), is that the home-schooled kids are in general not only much sharper than their peers from even private schools, but that they are also much more well-mannered!

Hang in there!

[wintertime]

The fundamental problem with government schools are that they are utterly incompatible with freedom of conscience and the First Amendment.

Unfortunately, when there are the inevitable government school conflicts, the courts examine the issue narrowly. Never to my knowledge have the courts examined the fundamental reason for why there are these eternal conflicts.

The basic conflict is that there can NEVER be a religiously, culturally, or politically neutral education. All schools must make thousands of binary, (one way only), decisions regarding school policies and curriculum. In making these decisions the school establishes a non-neutral worldview.

When the government gets involved in education it WILL establish the religious, cultural, and political worldview of some and trash that of others. Is it any wonder we have these continual tug of wars over government school policies and curriculum?