To these people, religion is something you *need* in order to be a stable person. People who declare they have no religion are either lying, or must have no direction in their meaningless, consumer-driven lives.

Hence their willingness to propogate it to children. It’s the honorable conveyance of a greater purpose, not the slimy brainwashing of children that we see it as.

In general, the only real solution, if you can’t prevent the delivery in the first place, is simply the delivery of better quality information. I suggest running an after-school program called “UberKidz”, which explains how to manipulate religious people into giving you money The techniques are straightforward, and once people have looked behind that particular curtain they are pretty thoroughly inoculated against lesser forms of spiritual scamming.

No doubt the school board would fail to approve that however, you might have to dress it up as “Magic classes” or something.