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My wife and I are not catholic (or Christians for that matter), but we send our daughter to the neighborhood Catholic school. There are lots of other non-catholics who do the same.
Its a great school, with wonderful staff. Small class sizes, low tolerance for disruptive behavior. I don't have any dreamy eyed notions about it. We pay a lot of money to be a in a self selecting group who value education and are committed to their kids.
I don't see how the public schools could ever compete with private. There is always going to be an element of kids who are simply in school to keep them off the streets until they are 18. They're not going anywhere good. Those kids don't benefit from being in the presence of achieving kids, they simply suck up all of the schools resources and the staffs time, to the detriment of those trying to work hard. If the public schools had much more rigid 'track' systems to separate the eggs, it might work better.
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