Schools should teach kids how to think, not what to believe. So, why do these schools seem to be promoting polygamy, punishing kids who think homosexuality is wrong, and banning the American flag?

First, there’s the father in Georgia who complained to his daughter’s middle school that he thought her homework assignment was promoting polygamy. The assignment contained a letter by a Muslim woman claiming that people who frown on polygamy are misguided.

"I understand that some Westerners condemn our practice of polygamy, but I also know they are wrong," the assignment letter said. Following the father’s complaint, the school agreed to review the appropriateness of the assignment.

Then, there’s the teacher in California who was lowering students’ grades for saying “bless you” after someone in class sneezed.

After parents complained, he said he’d stop lowering grades. But, as ABC reports, “[T]he teacher says he will just find another way to discipline students for saying ‘bless you’ in class.”

Over in Texas, there’s the story of the honors student who was punished for telling a classmate that he felt homosexuality was wrong. He expressed his opinion when the issue was raised - in his German class. It took a brave mother and her Liberty Counsel attorney to get the student’s two-day suspension lifted.

In California, a student was told he must remove the American flag from the back of his bike in order to enter school grounds – because some students had, reportedly, been offended by this display of the good old red, white, and blue.

Here, too, the school reversed its position once public attention was drawn to its censorship of the flag.

Sadly, it seems like we’re now at a point where it takes the intervention of lawyers, or an expose in the news, to get some schools and teachers to stop trying to force students to embrace a social agenda – and start doing their job: teaching.