Finally! A major national pundit has figured out that the public schools just aren't going to get better, no matter what Christians do to try to change them. Go to townhall.com and read Cal Thomas' excellent column of Dec. 27, "Unintelligent designs" (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/calthomas/2005/12/27).

Commenting on the ruling by a federal judge to ban the teaching of Intelligent Design theory in the public schools of Dover, Pennsylvania, Thomas said the ruling "should awaken religious conservatives to the futility of trying to make a secular state reflect their beliefs."

His solution? "Religious parents should exercise the opportunity that has always been theirs. They should remove their children from state schools with their 'instruction manuals' for turning them into secular libers, and place them in private schools--or home school them--where they will be taught the truth, according to their parents' beliefs. Too many parents who would never send their children to a church on Sunday that taught doctrines they believed to be wrong, have had no problem placing them in state schools five days a week where they are taught conflicting doctrines and ideas."

Amen! Now if we could only find a way to break through the wall of denial that most Christian parents have erected around the public schools, we might really get somewhere. Too many parents refuse to believe that America's public schools actively and enthusiastically promote sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, abortion, and rebellion against Christian morality. After all, if they believed that, how could they possibly justify leaving their children in those schools?