Preserving The Republic

As I concluded the third reading assignment I felt unsettled. I feel like I really didn't get anywhere. The reading went back to the birth of our great nation. It brought up a topic that has plagued our country's schools since the very beginning and still continues to exist today: the separation of religion and politics from education. The article tries to give us an image that we could achieve a compromise between all the different background we have in this country. It is almost as though for the past 200 years we have been trying to come to an agreement with what type of religious and political views we should teach within a classroom. I feel that this is a goal we will never be able to reach. You cannot try and come to an agreement when dealing with such a diverse population. To try and have one set of morals and values to try and teach our students would have consequences and might offend various groups of people. Moreover, if we try and throw out religion and politics from the classroom than what do we have left to teach? Of course we can always teach the history, math, english, grammar. But i feel as though parents might want their children to learn more from sitting in a classroom eight hours a day. This is why Catholic schools, private schools, boarding schools, etc all exist, it's so that students are molded into the certain morals and values the parents want them to have. However, this cannot be achieved in a public school system where students come from all types of different backgrounds, cultures, and religious points of view.