In addition to rearing children, they have followed many vocations, some as doctors, engineers, attorneys, investors and the like. But reflecting on the state of my daughter’s high school, I’m concerned that girls today are being offered radically limited ideas of how to live meaningful lives. We are Episcopalian and were grateful to have our daughter educated in a faith community that emphasized God’s presence in all places and striving for the good in every endeavor. Having a Catholic girls school in ultraliberal Portland is a challenge. Many students come from radical left-wing families with avowedly anti-Catholic views who forced the school to compromise on the ideal of a nonpolitical education.

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