The issue with kids'problems in high school is the fault of parents who do not have time to talk and be involved with their kids; with our materialistic and narcissistic culture, with lack of spirituality a part of home life.
Religious teaching, spirituality and values are the role of parents/family/houses of worship....NOT the schools.
Religious teaching is not the role of the schools, unless they are parochial schools. Keep church and state seperate. Do you want the schools to teach about Allah?
To place the ills of society today because "God is not in our schools" is a real cop-out.
This has nothing to do with schools teaching religion. Students are not part of the state. By the way, there is no seperation of state and church. Nothing in the 1st amendment says churh and state should be seperated. What it states, in plain english, is that the state has to stay out of religion. It says nothing about religion staying out of the state. This was put in to protect peoples rights to worship whatever religion they want without interference from the Government, not so the Government could ban religion which is what the so-called seperation of church and state is really about. There is nothing in the constitution about displaying religions icons, commandments or any other part of religion in government institutions such court rooms, schools etc.
I don't want them to teach kids to believe in Allah or to believe in any religion. But there are billions of people who are Muslims, Christans, Buddihsts, and it would certainly be educational to teach kids they exist and what they believe, who founded those faiths and their place in history. That's not the same as telling the kids to follow that particular faith. It's hard to believe that common sense on this subject is so lacking in teachers, school boards and judges.