Voting to provide for education at the local level does absolutely nothing to anyone’s first amendment rights. They are free not to attend. They can school at home, they can attend private schools, they can attend computer schools. Nothing prevents it.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, put into effect just prior to the US Constitution’s ratification and continuing afterward for decades said in Article III:
“”Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.””
That line has the Founding Era fathers of our nation recommending religion and schools.
I see this differently than you, but I must admit that you are a polite debater. I suspect we’ll not see it the same way on this thing, especially about ostracizing teachers, but it’s a free country.
You seem to like early mornings as well. :>)
Free not to attend? Really? Are citizens free not to pay for the godless and socialist indoctrination of children?
In my county there are **no** private schools. Why?
Answer: The government is running a price-fixed and monopoly cartel that is giving its product away for tuition-free. If a cartel of CEOs did this with an industry they would be in prison. This hostile business climate for private schooling makes the creation of private schools highly unlikely.
Answer: High taxes for socialist and godless schools force both parents into the work force, thus making homeschooling impossible.
Answer: The poor quality of socialist schooling assures that parents are too ill-educated themselves to homeschool.
Answer: The values taught in the godless socialist schools make divorce and single parenthood more likely. Single parenthood makes homeschooling far less possible.
Finally, if a parents can not find a private school or homeschool they, and the child, are under threat of armed police action to use the godless socialist school and the taxpayer is forced to pay for this religious, political, and social abomination.
Personally, I will no longer have socialist school teachers as friends. Anyone who would cooperate with forcing children to think and reason godlessly, or to be comfortable with socialism is **done** as a friend as far as I am concerned. I don't care how well intentioned they are. Our nation's road to tyranny is paved with good intentions.