The solution is to begin the process of privatizing all schooling. Why?
At its very best government schooling never had more than generic and lukewarm Protestant Christianity. The progressives (who originally lobbied for the idea of compulsory government run schooling) have always controlled teacher training and curriculum development. These progressives have always pushed for greater and greater atheistic secularism.
By the time I graduated from high school ( 1964) Christianity was reduced to a lukewarm and generic Lord's Prayer and scripture verse in the morning. Afterward it was non-stop godless secularism. Once in a while there **might** be a hymn sung by the chorus at an assembly or ( maybe) a prayer before a formal event such as graduation but that was all.
In an environment such as this the students risk learning to be lukewarm and generic in their attitudes toward religion. In my opinion the reason there was a Hippie movement was that too many of my generations were rudderless and had no firm anchor in their so-called “Christianity”.
If you turn children over to Caesar don't be surprised that they return home as Romans. If you send them into schools that are lukewarm and generic in its Christianity don't be surprised if they return home lukewarm and generic in their faith.
Hippies! You’re right. They were a movement before my town even heard of such a thing but we fell right in line with the changes.
Yes, and vouchers are the key.
Bring the money away from teacher unions and leftist moron factories to schools. Let the market decide!