The argument about the quality educational system shouldn't be about religion versus secularism, as the writer of the Oct. 5 letter "Better schools are secular schools" would want us to believe.
A quality educational system at the very least must provide a safe and healthy environment for the nurturing of our young minds. This includes not only the school environment but also the family and the community. Without security and health, everything else is wasted.
With that taken care of, we then consider the infrastructures such as the availability of a good library, lab and sports facility and the technological support and other equipment that can facilitate teaching.
Next in consideration would be the teaching materials and the relevant curricula that impart basic knowledge, logical skills and literacy.
Finally, the most essential aspect includes the quality of the administrative team, caring teachers and clinical support staffs and also parental involvement.
Given those elements they should produce good student outcomes. Any schools, religious or otherwise, that provide at least those basic elements would be considered quality schools.
As far as I know, there is no "religious" school that would do away with teaching math, reading, and science for the sake of teaching exclusively theology except the seminary, which isn't what the writer was talking about.
As far as the controversy regarding evolution and other theories is concerned, there is a legitimate objection to the way they are taught in schools as scientific facts. Such objection and the clergies' prayer in no way made his case of "Better schools are secular schools."
Shan Lim
Memphis
Source: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/oct/13/letter3/?partner=RSS
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