Too many liberal Dems like militant teacher union activists, for example, are themselves so hooked into the money and power they can wield from exploiting kids and their schooling (push universal public preschool, oppose school vouchers even in systems failing kids and families, e.g.) that the danger I see now, is an unholy alliance between the secular and the sacred, with kids as the sacrifice all sides agree to ante up, hoping to win the whole pot.

It's like the problem of saving our common environment. We each need to do our own bit as individuals, but so far only the few truly independent-minded parents (educated thinkers, not blind followers of school, church or party doctrine) are left to care about real-live boys and girls, and it seems as if we won't be heard unless we institutionalize and politicize ourselves to the point that we become part of the same destructive and delusional, mutually reinforcing mindset:

Oh-oh, why do I think this can't possibly turn out well?? Two insufferable prides of lions deciding how to cook supper, and we're IT? JJ

Teacher Union Prez to Baptist clergy:
"Can you imagine if the members of the faith community would join with the NEA, and we go hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm, to members of Congress? That is one of the things I have been trying to do, get people to come together as partners, so we can go forward with one message of what is important to kids."

Weaver said his definition of partnership is there is benefit for both parties. . .

[JJ's note: the parties AT the party, he means -- never mind the rights or needs of the supper they're sharing; he fudges it to make it seem the kids will be served, so we'll imagine them sitting at the table as important guests, the raison pour la fête, but no -- what he has in mind is kids ON the table AS the feast! Why concern themselves in the slightest over how the dishes might prefer to be cooked?]

Our children, in this scenario, are mere commodities that Congress will be instructed to bless and then carve up into standardized servings for both School and Church -- a waste of good food though, since all evidence and experience tells us these lions are insatiable and Congress is probably next on the menu.