"didn't use to be that way - until the federal government started interfering where it doesn't constitutionally belong.
Tax money should not be spent teaching and advancing your religion, or any religion. The 14th Amend demands that a minority of taxpayers be rpotected against a majority of tyrants using tax money to promote and futher their religion. That is the Constituitonal justification for the feds interfering. It was to stop the abuse.
"Your support for big government control is perfectly in line with Stailin and Mao. You marxist evo-bots love oppression and suppression."
Whatever makes you feel good.
Or yours - philosophical naturalism and rationalism, which essentially equate to promoting atheism in schools - a clear violation of the Establishment Clause. You have the power of government behind you - but might doesn't make right. It's a violation of the foundational principle of self-government. Schools should reject federal money and support their own schools, then the govt has no say at all.