Most religious schools turned out to have more than their fair share of bright, well-off kids, and correspondingly fewer stragglers and poor ones.

结果，大多数信教学校比其他学校是有更多聪明、幸运的孩子，并且有相对少数的落后贫穷的孩子。

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This means that religious families have a wider choice of school than most: they are given preference by distant religious schools and can still apply to secular ones nearby.

这意味着信教家庭比其他家庭有更多选择学校的权利：他们能得到距离远的信教学校的优待并仍可以选择申请附近的普通学校。

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Children at religious schools made no more progress than those at secular ones, and areas where there were many religious schools did no better than those where there were few.

在有信仰的学校里的孩子并不比在普通学校里的孩子有更大的进步，而且在那些有许多有信仰学校的地区也不见得就比少的地区好。

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Both communities faced the same kind of public resistance when they first established their religious schools.

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Alternately, they can send their children to private religious schools.

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For example, the Supreme Court ruled in nineteen forty-eight that religious classes could not be taught in public schools.

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At Jewish religious schools, they sit at wooden tables to study Torah and Hebrew.

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Pakistan's president, Pervaiz Musharraf, has ordered religious schools to expel all foreign students by tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, Pakistan has set up a new anti-terrorist department and plans to regulate religious schools.

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