I would say fine, except (and there's always an except) that in large cities the public schools have always served as a family's first toe-hold into American culture. So the melting pots becomes a little less melty. And the other thing is -- the values some of these schools may teach may not only be non-American, but downright anti-American. And I'm not talking about the kind of hyperbole indulged in on this board sometimes with "socialist" anti-American, I mean, "death to the great satan" anti-American.
Come on Durasell, you and I have sparred before. You are not saying that you subscribe to the notion that the government schools have as an agenda to protect children from the wiccan world view. Naturalism is the underlying tenent of teaching in science classes.... A + B = C. That is the heart of naturalism. The opposite of the wiccan doctrine is supernaturalism, not atheism. Why would parents who subscribe to the Christian world view want their kids inundated with a contrarian world view. When the school in California required the teachers to not teach the Declaration of Independence (as it was reported 2 weeks ago) I think some might conclude that it already does teach that which is unAmerican. A casual observer would conclude that at best the government school system is markedly dysfunctional and has long ago ceased to be an educational system and is now a tool for dumbing down the past 3 generations of kids.