[LaineyDee]

What's wrong with private secular schools? This article skates around the premise that one can't be moral or upstanding, or for that matter, patriotic, without being religious.

We do have secular schools....that are called government funded public schools. Secularism is a religion in and of itself....teaching no moral boundaries and worshipping the god of "if it feels good, do it"......which is why we have the mess we are in today.

Private parochial schools have moral boundaries of right/wrong...making it understood that we are accountable to a Creator as well as our community...and are undergirded with the foundation of truth and facts in their education.... not teaching the curriculum the way they'd have "liked" it to have been...IMHO

[stanz]

I wasn't talking about public schools. I was talking about private schools. My daughter attended both elementary and high school at private secular institutions.
Secularism, the last time I checked, merely means the absence of institutionalized religion. My point is that religion does not have the monopoly on morality.
We consider ourselves decent people, but we have no religious beliefs. This article reflects the same things you are saying- - - that "truths" can only be found in church and that worshipping is the only route to decency and civic responsibility. There are some of us who disagree with this assumption.