We are convinced that even apart from the context of a specific faith, it is possible to teach these shared values. Indeed by deliberately excluding these shared moral values from the curriculum, the educational system actually undermines them. Children naturally look to the school to provide them with important knowledge. It is all too easy for children to assume that information not taught in school cannot be very important. To raise a generation without an understanding of values is to assure disaster.
Children are the future.
The specter of a nation with an amoral citizenry is terrible to contemplate. The damage would be irreversible. We recognize that parents have a responsibility to teach values. Indeed, in such a morally apathetic environment, that so many parents have instilled strongly grounded values in their children is testimony to the unique role parents have in shaping their children's lives. But in our society parents can use all the help they can get.