10 Frightening Things That Happen at Conservative Christian Schools That May Be Funded With Your Tax Dollars

School vouchers have long been a pet cause of Christian school advocates who want to shore up profits and increase their ranks. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court ruled that public funds designated for private school tuition were not an infringement on church/state separation. That gave private Christian school advocates a green light to promote vouchers for themselves.

Though vouchers have become legal in some states, like Ohio, others, like North Carolina, are still holding out. Either way, Christian school advocates show no signs of slowing down their efforts. One reason vouchers remain so contested is that they sometimes fund activities in private Christian schools that many American taxpayers would not want to support. Here are 10 strange things that happen at Christian schools that may give you pause next time vouchers are debated in your state:

1. Inflammatory anti-choice rhetoric - “I remember my English teacher passing around shocking photographs of dismembered babies. That was where I learned about abortion.”

2. Hands-on anti-choice activism - Some Christian schools even schedule field trips in which students are transported to an abortion clinic for a protest.

3. Christian sex-ed - If that weren’t groan-worthy enough, many abstinence-only programs teach objectively false information. Heritage Keepers notably claims that condom use results in pregnancy one in seven times.

4. Intolerance - In other words, public schools would now be required to use school curriculums that whitewash Christians and demonize Muslims. Though relatively new to public education, Islamophobia has long run rampant at Christian schools.

5. Punishment by gender - Teachers in Christian schools sometimes stereotype boys as more rambunctious and rebellious than girls. In practice, this means that boys are often the targets of harsher corporal punishment.

6. Pregnancy expulsions and firings - Punishing girls who have sex also extends to pregnancy.

7. Revisionist evangelical history classes - The racist history of the United States is usually whitewashed or romanticized in Christian school curriculum.

8. Creationism-only - creationism cannot in any way be science

9. Ridiculous dress codes, mostly for girls - The idea that modest dress among girls tempers teen hormones is magical thinking, but it has never gone out of fashion at Christian schools.

10. Proms without dancing - But in 2009, an Ohio student was suspended from his Christian school for attending a public school prom.