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>The problem is that God has been in the homes and schools of many who've done great evil in the world, too. I think you'll find that most of the slaveholders in the American South believed in God and that what they were doing was moral. Similarly, their descendants who terrorized blacks over several generations were mostly churchgoers, as were most of the Germans who slaughtered the Jews of Europe.
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>Without getting into an argument as to whether all those people were truly Christian as they proclaimed to be, it's clear that raising children with God in school isn't sufficient to make them good people.

No; but with the breakup of homes and families so rampant, the school was the only place left that had vast amounts of contact with the children.

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>It's my view that it isn't necessary, either. As the mother of two young men (now 19 and 23), I've spent a lot of time in the past two decades with young people. The ones who come into our home have almost all been educated in public schools that respect the religious backgrounds of their students, but don't cater to any one group. Their homes vary from quite observant (both Christian and Jewish) to virtually no religious content. Almost invariably, these kids are polite, well-mannered, focused, and headed for successful lives. Why? Because they were raised by parents who love them, in a community that values them, and given opportunities to learn and grow.
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>Tamar

I can fully say "Amen" to that statment about parents. Society heaps fast amounts of priase on so called sports people, who turn out to be very poor role models. Then overlook hard working parents who want nothing more than to raise their kids in a loving environment.

Where or where has our priorities gone...