I don't think religious schools are inherently bad. I say this as an atheist who went to Catholic high school and now works at one. The academics in the privat

I don't think religious schools are inherently bad. I say this as an atheist who went to Catholic high school and now works at one. The academics in the private religious schools (around here at least) are significantly more rigorous than public schools (which I attended until high school). Certainly there is a strong religious influence. Maybe we're more liberal than some, but evolution is taught as true science. We did get abstinence education, but it was somewhat half-hearted.