From the perspective of a religious person , atheism looks like to me like any other religion . A rather intolerant one at that . I know that probably offends your sensibilities , but the government shouldn ' t be establishing atheism any more than any other religion . In fact the only way the federal government doesn ' t break the first ammendment , is if it gets out of the business of education entirely . Or at least it must not mandate that schools teach something they don ' t believe . Its best for all involved if what to teach is determined by the local community and that parents can chose which schools to send their kids too . It ' s as much your right to send your kid to an atheist school as it is to send mine to a religious one and the government per the constitution should not be allowed to interfere with that .