It's better that children of minorities go to public school than be segregated in private parochial schools. This includes Muslims. The public system  harmonizes values, and children from different backgrounds and faiths get along extremely well.  Some people argue that children of extremists would use prayer time in public schools to plot against society-at-large: a groundless fear.  Another objection, it's unfair to allow one group to pray, while everyone else is following the standard curriculum. The trade-off is that minorities who want prayer time would withdraw their children from public school if they couldn't follow the tenets of their faith. Keeping them in public school and giving them prayer time is much better for everyone than segregating them in their own schools, depriving them of the opportunity to integrate with everyone else. If the shoe were on the other foot, we'd expect
the same respect.