another day, another reason to home school
So right! See Mr. Silver's comments on education in the article:
They understood that Adams’ “moral and religious people” required moral and religious children. Government had responsibility to encourage, not stifle, parents’ ability to raise their children as spiritual beings sharing basic religious and moral values, without having to share the same theology.
Secularists would argue that they are not stifling parents’ desire to raise religious and moral children by removing any positive reference to Judeo-Christian values from government schools, but most parents would disagree. These parents are forced to pay (through taxes) for government schools that do not meet the educational needs of their children, but unless independently wealthy they cannot afford to send their children to private schools. If the removal of traditional values from the government schools does not end quickly, then parents will soon demand, at the ballot box, the right to choose schools for their children (with vouchers), whether private or government run.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367895/posts
(Pence)He has co-authored legislation that he says would prevent the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court, from ordering judges to remove the Ten Commandments or other "acknowledgment[s] of God" from their courtrooms, leaving such matters in the hands of state courts.
"The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets," Pence said. "And so the idea that, whether it be in Alabama or elsewhere, that states or public officials can't acknowledge a God or acknowledge that list of principles without violating the Constitution, I think, is anti-historical. And I think it's offensive to most Americans."