Sometimes, you gotta roll a hard six. Or, maybe three of 'em.

You have got to love public education.

If "separation of church and state" is to be applied in an absolute sense to public education, we've only hit the tip of the iceberg. If a woman can be fired because she is "enticing students to practice witchcraft" by letting them read Harry Potter, things have truly hit the fan. Soon, teachers who believe in Marxism will be fired for trying to teach that religion.

You see, there's no good answer here. All that has happened in New York is that a principal, who is probably a Christian, recognizes that he's not allowed to integrate his faith into his job. He then takes the approach (which I think may be correct) that "if I can't do it, neither can she."

The only way we will ever get past this is to defund and defunct public education. No, it can't happen overnight. Any true market reforms, whether concerning education or industry, must happen gradually, with transitional institutions, like vouchers and charter schools.

So, what do you think? Is it reasonable to think that public education will ever be free of the Church/State conflict?