Religion Debate and the First Amendment

Today in class we basically just debated the whole time. We started off with reviewing the 1st amendment, and stating what each statement in the amendment gives us. We then took it back to the debate on religion and schooling. To me its obvious that since the tax payers give fund to public schooling, and not all tax payers are christian, then public schools should not have any religion thrown into them. The only way that private schools can have religion is because whoever attends them, gives the funds to have the school teach catholically.  The constitution included religion because at that time that was something the country was proud of, letting the people have the religion they want. They did not specify a God, so yes it does fit almost all people, and back in that time, there wasn't many attest people. It can be debated today with the rise of the atheist religion, but we are trying to keep the country the way it has always been, and really i don't think it is even a conflict we need to be concerned about.