I fully agree with you. There are many ideas that would help; and if I were in any position to try to help the public screwel system, I would try to implement them. But really, I consider it way too FUBAR to salvage. The distorted textbooks, the leftist teachers, the savage clothing and ornamentation, the sex-ed, the vicious mind distorting entertainment that most kids are saturated with, the broken families, the anti-God atmosphere that permeates the culture - some kind of divine intervention is needed.
The more people who realize this, pray a lot, and try to help their own corner of the world - what more can be done?
It's good for us to make this point in public, and thank goodness we still can: one of the things we can do is to recognize the threat to our children's souls that books like Harry Potter represent and take the time, trouble and effort to keep our own kids safe from their influence.
A few years ago, when my girls were in pre-school up to 4th grade, I had them in local parochial "Catholic" school. I went toe-to-toe with the principal, the pastor and the DRE about many things, including evolution and the denial of the historicity of Scripture. It was like fighting city hall. The local bishop (Mahony) was against me, and the pastor, while he sympathized with my concerns, was too scared to back me up. The liberals were in control and the Catholic schools were less Catholic than nearby Baptist, Lutheran and public schools!
But it was Harry Potter that was the last straw. I went to every parish school within 10 miles (in the San Fernando Valley, that's not a few!) and found they ALL were avid Harry Potter fans. I did not have my kids in so-called Catholic school to be spoon-fed wicca or worse.
Now the wiccans screech out like devils in exorcism: WICCA IS NOT WITCHCRAFT!!! Give me a break. They might as well shout that clay is not dirt, sewage is not water or gas is not air.
People will latch on to the wildest nonsense to excuse their personal sin.