Doug,
The solution is to abolish government's involvement in K-12 schooling.
The following link explains why government schooling is unconstitutional on both the federal and state levels:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter9.htm
What follows are a few talking points on why I believe government schools are unconstitutional:
Government schools curriculum and policies can NEVER be politically, culturally, or religiously neutral in content or consequences. NEVER. Why? Because childhood education is fundamentally in its very essence the transfer of values from one generation to another.
When a child attends a government school they are taught that the government can and does restrict their free speech, free press, free expression of religion, and free assembly.
Government indoctrinated children also learn that if they refuse to cooperate, government can and DOES send out armed police to force them into centers that restrict their human rights,
Government indoctrinated children also learn that if a citizen refuses to pay for government school human rights abuses, or if the citizen refuses to fund the non-neutral government school political, religious and cultural worldview that armed police can and WILL sell the citizen's home or business at auction. They also are taught that if the citizen resists, he risks prison or death.
Since it is culture, political and religious worldview, and moral and value beliefs that determines curriculum and hundreds of school policies, children learn that government can aim a police gun at them and taxpayers to FORCE the government bureaucrats' worldview on other people's children.
Children also learn in government schools that the biggest political bully gets to decide what is stuffed into the heads of the next generation of voters, judges, lawyers, professionals of all kinds, religious leaders, editors and journalists, university professors, political party leaders, and our government representatives and bureaucrats.
Question: How can any of this be constitutional?
Solution:Remove your child from government school. Privatize universal education.
Government schools curriculum and policies can NEVER be politically, culturally, or religiously neutral in content or consequences. NEVER. Why? Because childhood education is fundamentally in its very essence the transfer of values from one generation to another. When a child attends a government school they are taught that the government can and does restrict their free speech, free press, free expression of religion, and free assembly. Government indoctrinated children also learn that if they refuse to cooperate, government can and DOES send out armed police to force them into centers that restrict their human rights,
I'm not saying it doesn't exist. It definitely exists in California probably and maybe in other areas--I don't know, haven't been there. But I haven't seen it in 10 years of teaching and I certainly haven't taught it either. These things are foreign to me and my classroom. What I do enjoy are the excitement when the kids learn something new, a parent expressing appreciation, the satisfaction the child gets from working hard to achieve a goal, and so on and so on and so on.