Since the 1960s the government schools have been completely godless in their worldview. So?...Why are we surprised that godlessness is growing?
Children learn what they experience.
If the schools are compulsory and a single-payer socialist entitlement. They will learn to be comfortable with compulsory socialism.
It the K-12 schools and the government functionaries that run them trash every First Amendment Right of the children and treat them in many ways like prisoners, then the children will learn to be comfortable with government abuse.
While there are many reasons America is less Christian, the government schools are a **major** reason that it is.
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