Just What American Kids Need---Less Religion

After all, that Bible study epidemic is out of control:

I saw a bumper sticker in the parking lot of the local public elementary school that read: What our schools need is a moment of science.

Science is great. In fact, it’s our nine-year-old’s favorite subject. But this statement isn’t pro-science, it’s anti-God. It’s saying that a moment of silence is an offensive thing and that it should be replaced by something academic.

Is the feeling that schools should simply concentrate on children’s education and leave everything else outside the school grounds? Maybe, but recent battles over junk food in schools indicate that parents and even some lawmakers want schools to do something about kids’ health.

Efforts have even involved state legislatures which, for the most part, have said the matter is best controlled by parents and school boards working together.

So schools can tend to children’s minds and bodies, but not their souls.

Contrary to current American belief, the purpose of public education is not to produce atheists. It is to produce good citizens, capable of contributing significantly to America. Being respectful of others' religious beliefs in no way requires pretending that religion doesn't exist.

We pay plenty for teachers and educational bureaucrats to educate our children in science. If they're not getting a moment of science, perhaps we should devote less time to celebrating diversity and more time to physics.

Or would that bore teachers too much?