Boy, I sure wish my public-school math classes had been no-wrong-anwer-as-long-as-I-felt-good-about-myself!! Gee, I wouldn't have had to work nearly as hard at grinding out those math assignments and studying for all of those exams. It was hard and I was challenged.

And before you comment that things have all changed... I was in high school from 1980-84. The public school/private religious school debate was going very strong then; many of the parents at my church were sending their kids to private schools. They were very open about the reason: they wanted to control the content of what their kids were learning. No evolution and no sex ed.

Interesting enough, not one of the kids in our church youth group (Baptist) who attended the Christian high school (about half of them) went on to college in the years that I was going there. Many of the rest of us went to college... but my brother and I, from a 'non-Christian' home, were the only ones who graduated. My Christian-high-school girlfriends were pretty much all married by age twenty. Oh, and several of the girls from the most conservative backgrounds were pregnant when they married. Ignorance of the facts of sex education didn't protect them, now, did it?

Yes, I am a Christian, not an 'anti-Christian bigot'. I am not afraid or embarrassed of my faith. But God gave me a brain and I am going to use it!