Religion and education: The connection?

Question

Please can someone explain the connection between religion and education? Are publicly funded religious schools obliged to offer places to children who do not have a specific belief system. (or rather their parents don't.) I still find it difficult to square the need for schools to adopt a particular belief sytstem. It surely is time to segregate the religious from the eduction system. I find it hard to accept that, after a schooling in the forties and fifties, when religion was taught as a fact, rather than as a theory, that it is impossible for students to be exposed to many religious beliefs in the course of their education. Perhaps when they are older their parents will then allow them to choose a religion. Or none at all.
I know that schools which have a religious identity seem to produce good quality education. But to exclude those who do not subscribe to their religion seems well...uncharitable.
But why should their be a connection? It just does not seem to make any sense.

Answer 1

Religious schools are not publicly funded in the U.S.

Answer 2

LOL religious schools are paid by tuition's. They are not state assisted nor government assisted. The children that attend are of that religion, usually. The children also attend a mass everyday in the church.

Public schools should not teach any type of religion.......this is the duty of parents if they choose to.

Answer 3

You can be of a faith but do not attend church and be denied a place in that faiths school because you are classed as non practicing meaning that you are not strong in your religeon. Connection church is law.

Answer 4

we should learn about spirtuality and the connection between all religions and the familiarity not the religion as a different concept

Answer 5

Parents pay for it, so they are going to make their children study it whether they like it or not.

"I said love Jesus dammit!"

Answer 6

Fear (respect) of God is the beginning of all knowledge.