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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Wake-up ignorant people!  STA is an Episcopal school and provides an episcopal education.  Boys have regular religion class, read the bible and go to mass regularly.  There are a few differences, but not that dramatic.  If you are concerned about the "dogma" the Prep boys are receiving then you should be similarly concerned about the "dogma" the STA boys are receiving.[/quote]

No, You could not be more inaccurate in each and every one of your claims.  Episcopal schools, and that certainly DOES include STA and NCS, are bastions of a balanced and un-biased approach to education that is tolerant and open-minded.   [b]Episcopal schools have always sustained a strong commitment to rigorous academic inquiry[/b].  Episcopal schools welcome students of all faiths or no faith at all. [b]The central hallmark of Episcopal education is its commitment to the life of the mind and spirit, a partnership between reason and faithful inquiry.[/b] STA doesn't require its students "read the bible."  They study the bible and study [i]religions of all kinds[/i].  It is an inclusive study of religion and an inclusive interpretation of Christianity as a whole.   Episcopal schools are meant to be broadly based, seeking to educate without regard to religious affiliation.  Many of the top institutions of learning in this country were founded by the Episcopal Church including William and Mary, Columbia University, and a large number of the top boarding schools.

Further, PP, you are clearly unaware that there is a perduring local character to Anglicanism as it has developed globally, with each church and [b]school governing its own affairs [/b]while taking periodic counsel with others. It is something of a bottom-up kind of management, rather than top-down hierarchy akin to the [b]Catholic church with its Popes and Bishops and centralized rules and procedures that are not changed or challenged for centuries and rule over every church and school within its sphere[/b].  This is WHY people have issues with Catholic schools and rightly question these schools' education and academics.  Regardless of their local affiliations, to Jesuits, or Convent of the Scared Heart, Augustinian, Benedictine or Franciscan, or even Opus Dei, they are all still ruled by the hierarchy of the Catholic church and its pervasive dogma.

The ability to see diversity as a blessing to be celebrated, rather than a curse to be expunged or denied, is central to the ethos of Episcopal education. It is one of the fundamental reasons why people of other religious traditions, and none, seek out Episcopal schools.

You, PP, have some reading and research to do.  
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