—They are NOT religiously neutral because it is impossible to have a religiously neutral education. They are godlessly secular in their worldview by law. This is reflected in their classroom presentations, textbooks, curriculum, school policies, and homework assignments. ( No! A Christmas carol or two does not make a secular school God-centered in their worldview. ) Just to cooperate in the godless government school the child must learn to think and reason godlessly. How could it be otherwise? He also risks learning to separate privately held religious belief from his publicly lived life.
—**ALL** government owned and run K-12 schools are a single payer, socialist-entitlement. Merely by attending children risk learning that any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to give them **lots** of free socialist goodies.
-—***ALL** government K-12 schools owned and run by the government trash all First Amendment Rights. Speech, press, assembly, and expression of religion are strictly controlled by the government school workers and godless secular humanism is the religion sponsored by the government schools.
-—Government schooling is compulsory for all children whose parents can not randsom them by way of home or private schooling. Compulsory means police and court action and the threat of imprisonment. The danger in this is that children learn to be comfortable with government compulsion.
-—**ALL** government owned and run K-12 schools are a price-fixed monopoly cartel that is giving a service away for tuition-free. The danger in this is that children risk learning to be comfortable with government ( fascist/communist) control of markets.
-— Most government owned and run K-12 schools are based on the prison-like Prussian model of schooling. In many ways, the children are treated like prisoners. Sadly, children risk learning to be comfortable prisoners of the state. ( There are possibly exception to this but I don't know of any.)
Conclusion: Personally, I see government schooling to be evil for the child and a threat to our continuing freedom as a nation. Good people would never cooperate in such evil and I have made a decision. I will not have a government school teacher for a friend. They are either too evil, too stupid, or too much of a brainwashed Useful Idiot to do this children and threaten our nation in this way to be a friend.