<...The Flat Earth society could be providing the text books and no one can object. If as a parent you object to banning Harry Potter books, or Catcher in the Rye, or anything--you have the right only to remove your child from the school.

Ah. The "public-as-drooling-idiot" thesis yet again. Can I see hands raised here? How many parents would send their kids to the Flat Earth School? Up high, please. Thought so.

I heard this same bullshit from anti-voucher groups in California too, only the example they used was schools teaching "witchcraft."* Of course, this was before the Harry Potter craze--it's possible that witch schools might be able to land a few customers nowadays. ;)

And of COURSE they can object, by withholding their business.

And, the good news with private schools is, if some parent WANTS Harry Potter or Catcher in the Rye banned, the school can tell them to go jump in the lake.

For those concerned about religious schools walking off with all the vouchers: once vouchers have been established as a steady source of educational funding, enough additional non-religious schools will be formed to meet the demand, assuming most parents are as bent out of shape about this as the leftists are.

*One assumes they were talking about cauldron-boiling, Macbeth-annoying witchcraft, not Wicca, which could be considered--especially by broadminded liberals--as a valid religious school like any other.