The problem, Rick, is that parents are being forced to choose between things they want the kids to do -- whereas religion only release programs assume people are in one and only one congregation -- a mostly true assumption. Many kids do cub scouts and 4-H and soccer, etc.
On Saturday, February
In so many ways this is just a debate about school. As parents we are
frustrated that the school day is so long and our kids aren't getting
anything out of all that time. We would like for them to be doing
something productive. For example, I would love to see my school teach
foreign
No. Release time is not about shortening the school day to do something worthwhile. It is about religion, pure and simple. And I, and many of my friends, hated wednesday school -- putting on coats and boots and boarding busses to go to church to hear volunteer parents try to explain stuff to us
