Being from PA, I'm not surprised. As James Carvell once said, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on either end, and Alabama in between."

Christians are trying to get a jump on indoctrinating children to compete with the internet and it's magnificent cornucopia of information disproving religion.
As a person raised in a religious household and was brainwashed to believe in the nonsense, and unfortunately continued to believe in it into my adult life, I can say that it was information found on the internet that got me out of the shackles I was living in.
As a person who experienced a religious upbringing, to the point where I was punished by having to do Bible lessons, forcing religion on children is a form of mental abuse.
It basically handicaps the mind from fully developing.

I was going to say " If it is not publicly funded that who cares, but hey, it is publicly funded.

Would the Church of Pasta get a tax break for doing the same thing?

That's a whole (new) lot of brainwashing for the next generation of kids - again! How do we as a (world) society move forward with these religious hindrances and interferences.
Thankfully I stuck by my principles with my kids - with no religion or god following in my home. They're free from all this crap.