Chinese Students Are Flooding U.S. Religious High Schools, Including Scientology

Chinese Students Are Flooding U.S. Religious High Schools, Including Scientology.

Foreign Policy: Chinese Students Are Flooding U.S. Christian High Schools

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To be sure, the percentage of Chinese high school students attending religious U.S. institutions is not unique. IIE finding show virtually the same split of religious versus nonsectarian private school attendance among all international secondary students. And a smaller proportion of Chinese private high schools students attend religious schools than do their U.S. counterparts: about 37 percent of visas issued to Chinese students in 2014 and early 2015 were for nonsectarian private schools, while only 11.7 percent of U.S. secondary students at private schools were enrolled at nonsectarian private schools in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available. But it’s nonetheless remarkable that in an officially atheist country, where children are taught to abjure Western religion, so many parents seem willing to send their child to schools founded in religious principles ranging from Christianity, to Judaism, to Scientology.

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Chinese Students Are Flooding U.S. Religious High Schools, Including Scientology