I can see you are struggling with this.
I can hardly think of anything that the government does that has completely neutral religious, political, and cultural consequences. It is for this reason our Founding Fathers wanted government ( especially on the federal level) to be as **limited** as possible.
Education has **enormous** political, cultural, and religious content and consequences that are never neutral. It if for this reason we should attempt, in every way possible, to see that education is** privately** delivered and that these political, cultural, and religious decisions are **privately** decided between the **private **school administration and the parent.
In an ideal world there would be complete separation of school and state.
And there should be separation of church and state. When I was in school the only difference in religions were protestant and Catholic. Because we were a very small town, we oft times had school functions at one of our churches. The Catholics were not allowed to attend anything in a Protestant church. That was the biggest conflict we had. Now there are so many different religions represented, it would be impossible to bring religion into education. Which religion do we choose? Everyone says...MY religion of course. Only mine. It does not work that way nor should it. And this is no struggle for me at all. But I do thank you for your response and I do respect your point of view. I just cannot agree with it, with all due respect, wintertime.