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I simply will not send my children to a place where they are trapped with the spawn of adults whom I know are either not teaching their children moral values I find acceptable, or worse.

I can respect that.

Just as a question: do you think your children would be more influenced by these "spawn", or do you think they would choose instead to associate with friends from church or the neighborhood, or the children of your friends, or do you just not want to take the chance?

So, please know that I am aware that there are good teachers in public schools and there are many good kids, but the system itself is what I object to. I would object to it far less if I didn't have to subsidize it.

Now I'm a little bit confused, but I do appreciate your acknowledgement that we're not all evil Marxist atheists, etc....Do you object to the system because you consider it socialist, because everyone is allowed to attend, because you have to pay taxes for it, or for some other reason?

Simple: I want them associating with children of parents who share the same moral values I have. Freedom of association and all that. Though I sense from the tone of your question that you like the whole "melting pot" idea of our public schools, "The Great Leveler." Suffice it to say, I disagree.

Um, I doubt you're confused, but I object to the system because it's a centralized bureaucracy that perverts the classic market relationship of merchant/consumer. That being said, if I didn't have to subsidize it, I'd leave it with the rest of things in society I prefer to opt out of.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

- Thomas Jefferson