But they pay them less than the public schools, so thus reducing the economic GDP.
That would be only $60 a person a week, which would not be all that much even ignoring the money spent on schools etc. The average preacher would get fired if they couldn’t suck that much out of the pockets of the faithful.
My daughter worked for them one summer, and had to pretend to be a Lutheran to do it. Thrivent is pretty big.
Yeah. Just after we got married, and when my wife moved to Louisiana, she looked at teaching at one of these schools. The pay was so low as to be ridiculous. She became a night clerk at a motel which paid much better before getting a real job.
Or caskets or urns made by Trappist monks?
Don’t overlook Trappist beer, sausages and jams and jellies.
And in many cases produce much worse educated students, also reducing GDP. The Catholic schools do a pretty good job I understand, but many of the Protestant schools are more about religious indoctrination and teaching how to proselytize effectively, with little or no interest in anything beyond that. It’s one reason you see so many believers using the same phrases and arguments in religious discussions; they’re parroting what they’ve been taught.
In every city I’ve lived in that had a Catholic school (I briefly lived in one that didn’t), the elementary schools were decent, but the high schools had the biggest drug problems, because that’s where the money was.
The town that didn’t was a small city in the Ozarks whose only parochial school was at a Baptist church, and had about 10 students in K through 5, with a single teacher and an aide.