What should I do if I'm being forced to go to a Christian School?

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You should look into the bona fides of the school.

Even if they're peddling bullshit, they could be a better education opportunity than you'll get from a public school. In your state, that's not a high bar. I know you're close to a major university so the public schools could be better, but it's still the public school system in that state. Private schools are regularly great educations. The teachers are paid better, so they are better at their craft by and large. You are still going to go to trig, and english, and literature, and calculus. Those classes are not going to be much different, if at all. Maybe biology will be a little screwed, but you are smart enough and probably already know more about evolution than you'd ever learn in a biology classroom in the American South.

You gotta make the best of the situation. Be a freethinker, and even though you might be forced to go to to a religious school, look for how you can benefit from this situation.

Maybe...maybe not.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answ...k-says-no/

In fact, it is not at all clear that parents choose schools primarily on the basis of academic effectiveness.  School uniforms, the demographics of a school, and sports programs are easier to observe, and parents often consider these, along with religious values, to be more important than the quality of academic instruction, as consistently shown in studies of parents’ school-choice behaviors from places like the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University. As schools are cast as competing businesses in current reforms, families may be influenced by image over academic substance, just as fast food marketing successfully focuses on fun and not nutrition.

In this case, I bet that fucking crucifix on the wall is mom's main incentive.