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I, personally, would like to see the public schools offer, say, an hour's
worth of religious instruction per week. The teaching could be done by
experienced lay people and, when the bell rings, kids would decamp to the
room housing their preferred denomination: Baptist, Catholic, Muslim, Jew,
Buddhist, Undeclared, Whatever. Moreover, kids could rotate between the
groups thereby gaining an understanding of those poor *******s doomed to
Hell.



You left out Scientology, wiccam (sp?), voodoo, etc. I like the idea of
taking children to church/temple/synagog for religious training -
helps the whole family learn and practice their beliefs. Of course,
there is often little of that going on at home, what with a six-pack to
finish off every evening, parents in jail or under the influence of
____. You seriously want to pass on to government the last aspect of
family life not already pawned off to public schools? Really? My
parents learned more by 8th grade than I did by 12th, and it now takes a
B.S. to learn to spell....schools too busy busing, feeding and raising
kids to actually teach.