I see government schools as an impossible to resolve conundrum. The only possible constitutional and freedom of conscience solution is to begin moving to a completely private system of K-12 schooling.
With regard to God, there are only two possible choices for any school to make: It must be either God-centered in its worldview or godless. Neither worldview is religious, politically, or culturally neutral in content or consequences.
It is impossible to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral school! Therefore...No matter what decisions a government schools will make concerning evolution, materialism, or hundreds of other issues, the government **will** establish the religious, cultural, and political worldview of some while actively undermining the worldview of others.
All government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination. Please...We must stop trying to reform the impossible. The only solution is to begin moving to a completely private system of education.
This is an important concept to understand. It is impossible to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral school.
If our Founding Fathers could have foreseen our system of government run, compulsory attendance, and compulsory funded government schools, they would have included complete separation of state and SCHOOL in the Constitution and all state constitutions.
ALL government schools are a freedom of conscience abomination!
I don't usually play the "Here's what the Founding Fathers' should have said in the Constitution" game ... but that would have been a good Amendment to the Constitution.
May I use your post on Facebook? If so do you want it credited to you and Free republic? A high school student interviewed us today about prayer in school etc. The first question was “do you think prayer should have been taken out of schools?” My answer was that I don’t think government should be involved in education. I would like the “interviewer” to read your post.