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I hear you. I just think it's important for my kids to be in contact with the culture, such as it is. I don't envy them having to grapple with the concerns you mentioned. I agree that DARE (which had its share of issues) was a lot less questionable than the current social agenda.

Schools are always mouthpieces. Where I grew up in the 90s in Southern California, the public high school I went to was proud of the fact that they'd figured out a way to have a school-funded evangelical christian club that met weekly on campus (and had hundreds of members). My English teacher taught a class called "Bible as Literature" which was overtly religious even thought it wasn't supposed to be, and she was well-known to be a born-again christian. The P.E. teacher at my public middle school used to make us all stand on our numbers while he told us stories about how Jesus got him through his time in the Marines.

None of this is great, but it's just the way life is, and I believe it's important for my kids to understand, in context provided by my wife and I, how society all fits together. School is an important part of that, in my opinion.