Reply #59: Should it be the public schools goal

[hughee99]

to encourage or minimize the devisions by enforcing a policy that not only removes any official establishment of a religion (which I am for) but also by takes away personal freedoms (which I am against)? Since presumably, many of these people will act differently in society then they act in school under these rules, would it not be better to introduce the children at an early age to the diversity, rather than forcing everyone to "assimilate" in school, and only experience diversity outside of the schools. If we are going to accept that these differences will continue to exist, are we doing a disservice to the children by not exposing them to it in a somewhat "controlled" environment?

"I remember seeing a filmstrip from the 30's where they tried this before but I had a hard time understanding it because the narration was in German" --George Carlin