Religious Schools - Private and Parochial Schools (K-12) 
Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High, Senior High, District, Alternative, Special Ed.
Solano County, San Francisco North Bay, Ca. USA

Parochial school can refer to a school run by any religious

organization. In some regions, the term is used specifically to refer to schools attached to Roman Catholic parishes. In those areas, "parochial" is used to distinguish a school operated by a Catholic church from one operated by a Protestant church. The Catholic parochial school system developed in the nineteenth century as a response to what was then seen as Protestant domination of the public school system in the United States.

In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion and its varied aspects —its beliefs, doctrines, rituals, customs, rites, and personal roles. In Western and secular culture, religious education implies a type of education which largely separate from academia, and which (generally) regards religious belief as a fundamental tenet and operating modality, as well as a prerequisite condition of attendance.

The secular concept is substantially different from societies that adhere to religious law, wherein "religious education" connotes the dominant academic study, and in typically religious terms, teaches doctrines which define social customs as "laws" and the violations thereof as "crimes," or else misdemeanors requiring punitive correction.

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