Wouldn't it be great if, when the kids get to school, they could join in a brief voluntary prayer before the classes start? Just a prayer thanking God for our freedoms and asking Him to watch over America and help each kid do his or her best during that school day? Wouldn't that be so much better than the metal detectors and drug testing and free condoms and abortion counseling that have replaced those prayers?

Wouldn't it be great if teachers still taught kids about who actually created this great nation, and why? About the deep faith and dependence on a God who cared, who instilled in us the yearning for liberty and equality, who motivated the men we call "our Founding Fathers"? About George Washington kneeling, praying in the frozen snow at Valley Forge when it looked like there was no hope for his little ragtag army against the mighty British?

Wouldn't it be great if our kids knew that all the great old colleges in America started out as Bible schools? That every single school kid in those early days attended classes in the Bible, along with arithmetic and geography and history? Wouldn't it be wonderful if that were still the case?