[Uriel1975]

Your use of "compulsory funding" is disingenious. A teacher leading a prayer or discussing religion is not "compulsory funding" except in theory. No more that a teacher leading a sex education class is "compulsory funding" of sex in the schools or even a pregnant teacher is "compulsory funding" of pregnancy. In short, you are trying too hard to be offended. no one is trying to put a baptismal font in the library.

If it's not compulsory... may the home-schoolers of my congregation deduct the average per-capita cost of public schooling from their State property taxes, etc?

Or are they still compelled to pay those taxes?

[Nebullis]

If the public schools were the only arena of public sphere your shift of the argument to compulsary funding of public education (whatever merit it has on its own) might be less irrelevant to the topic at hand.