[IronJack]

Facts are neutral things. If the schools just taught facts, there could be no objection. But not only do the schools teach opinion and propaganda disgused as fact, they do so at the expense of worthwhile subjects entirely!

[wintertime]

Facts are neutral things. If the schools just taught facts, there could be no objection. But not only do the schools teach opinion and propaganda disgused as fact, they do so at the expense of worthwhile subjects entirely!

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It is impossible to educate a child on "facts" alone.

How would they learn to read? What reading materials would solely "facts" based?

In history and civics it is impossible to give equal attention to all the history of every group in humankind. In the finite time allowed choices would need to be made and those choices are not politically, culturally, or religiously neutral.

Whether girls and boys are educated together, the holidays celebrated, the foods offered, the dress worn, the music chosen,,,,,all of these things are politically, culturally, and religiously loaded with profound non-neutral lessons for all the children in the school.

[WriteOn]

How can a fact be religiously neutral when all truth is of the Truth? :-)