| | I am sorry for the bad wording, but the post was made in a hurry. I am sometimes a bit lax with the overall grammar, because German is a language with laxer rules in itself.
In Germany we have a tighter school system, having almost only state-schools (97 %). The other private schools are either managed by a few individuals or by a religious group (some even have an elitist view, such as Salem).
However, the troublesome element in the general school system I explained in my post above and wasn't exactly your question, so I will turn on the private schools for explanation of my fears.
I have visited some of those schools in my area to look at what they teach and it is horrible. Instead of having calculus or even reading and writing, those students are taught to plant flower and play in the woods. I mean, nothing bad about playful elements in education, but they may choose to do it all day if they like. This might be ok in the Kindergarden, but not in the Forth grade or the high school.
When they are 12, a independent test has shown that they can barely read nor calculate or even form a rational objective argument.
I grant that not many children attend those schools, roughly about 12-25 per school (mostly because those school are a result of the 69er anti-authoritarianism or a new hip of old fashioned faith-abiding. They fear the loss of traditional Christian values and the bible and thus react to preserve them disregarding any science alltogether)
Those 25 individuals will have a hard and unfullfilling life if they choose to live on their own, because they have acquired no skills that could be helpful to their future lives. They will have wasted their lives without the chance to rreason against the indoctrination of their parents.
It's this fear I have against Creationism and alternative religious schools in general.
Of course, many Christian universities (like in the city of Freiburg) are very famous for having sponsored famous thinkers in German history. And still today, many graduates of theology aren't hardliners as one might suspect.
So, your argument is valid, too.
I think this is the most important and hardest choice to be taken in every education system throughout the world.
How much privatisation can be done without giving innocent lives to illiteracy in today's world.
This might be of interest to all of you. It is an essay about Literacy and Private Education in Great Britain before comprehensive schools came up.
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1425
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