let me say this: if there is government education, then what your children eat in school - as well of course as what they learn and how they learn - must be political questions. if you federalize the thing - for example by creating a department of education - then they must be political questions to be decided, let's say, by john boehner and harry reid. if you're expending taxes, the policies must be answerable to the people, as their will is expressed in their representatives. if you fund the arts by taxpayer dollars, then what is art and what art there should be is a matter for joe biden or michelle bachman to decide. it ought to be; it has to be. then you will be subject to alternating political correctness and reactionary philistinism, etc. well, you asked for it; you demanded it; swallow it without chocolate.