The Ninth Amendment guarantees the right of parents to choose their children's schools as well as their right not to have to pay for schools of which they disapprove. You will never learn about these rights in public schools. As the needs and talents of students are just as diverse as the students themselves, efforts to create just the right school environment for everyone are doomed to failure. We do the same thing when we mandate a certain state education curriculum. Conservative Christians will not sit still for condoms, evolution, and lax discipline.
Secular liberals feel extremely imposed upon by prayer, creationism, and dress codes.
As a result, both sides are locked in an endless urinating contest in the pursuit of the unattainable goal of making everyone happy with state education. In a free society, such as that envisioned by the Founders, the people would not be taxed into the pavement like they are today. Instead, people could keep 95 percent of what they earned and use it to raise their families as they saw fit. No one would be forced to attend a certain school, study a certain curriculum, or support a certain school with his tax dollars. Education is an essential part of getting ahead economically.