I work at a private school and my kids both attended the same school. The school is religious, but it’s not super conservative. A lot of religion aspect is focusing on helping others, being an upstanding member of the community, being a good person, and being tolerant on others. Kids of various religions attend the school. The school is known for it’s academics, so that’s why we have a wide variety of faiths nd beliefs at the school. We did have a math teacher who was let go because he spent the whole class time talking about religion and why you should save yourself until marriage. He never taught math and the kids didn’t learn anything. Parents were especially mad because he was also doing this in his honors classes. When he was let go, he said that the school was stifling his free speech. Well, he wasn’t supposed to be using class time to talk about religion. He was supposed to teach math.
Other then that, we haven’t had many instances of people feeling like their views are being stifled. We do celebrate Christmas at the school, but we also make sure to teach the kids about other holidays and faiths. For instance the Spanish classes always do something that has to do with Cinco de Mayo and Dia de Los Muertos. We have mock presidential debates that require students to do research. Kids can take world religions, etc. Yes, we have had parents complain about certain things, but most parents seem to be fine.
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