Can We Stop Fighting Over Schools?
by Charles L. Glenn, Public Discourse:
Most other nations with advanced levels of universal schooling provide public support to faith-based schools with no evident harm to their social fabric and with considerably less conflict over schooling. The time has come for the United States to adopt principled pluralism as the fundamental and equitable structure of our education system.
A decade ago, no one imagined the level of conflict and alienation that Americans have experienced in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election and its continuing aftermath: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the assault on White Privilege and Heteronormativity, and on and on. The Culture Wars described by James Davison Hunter in 1991 have spread to become what sometimes seems a universal war of all against all, in which everyone feels under attack.
Among those who no longer feel at home in American society are men and women for whom religious convictions “go all the way down,” forming the solid foundation of their life choices and moral judgments in every area, from the voluntary association in which they take part and to how they raise their children. “We’ve lost on every front,” Rod Dreher warns. “Hostile secular nihilism has won the day in our nation’s government, and the culture has turned powerfully against traditional Christians.”
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