Public Religion

America was founded by a group of people, Protestants, who were trying to escape religious persecution, by the Catholics; the mind set for the set up of the American government is to maintain the separation of church and state. Today 48% of young Americas agree that this separation is required by the constitution, but for many past years people believed that in order to maintain the separation of Church and State it was necessary to keep all religion out of public schools. Times have changed and it has become clear that in order to understand our history, as a nation, religion must play a role so that students can better understand the mindset of that current era. Now teachers are demanded to teach religion in context to better understanding history, art, music, and literature, but the line is fine on what is acceptable in a classroom. The teaching of religion in a public school comes with extreme guidelines and a system of educational balance. The teachers are required to teach the study of religion, not the practice of it. The purpose of the study of religion is to expose students to other religions.
People say that this is not enough exposure to the religion itself, the simple solution? Have the parents teach the child. It is not the duty of the public school system to instill religious beliefs in a child, no matter how badly the parents want it. If the parents strongly believe in exposing their child to constant religious brain washing private schools are more than willing to do that, for a small fee.