Sorry, but no. That's a key reason why the religious folk hate public education at the college level: that exposure tends to help previously indoctrinated kids recognize that they have been in a cult and they leave it.

As for K-12, their hatred is that the public version is competition for their private education which is fully intended to indoctrinate them into their particular flavor of religion.

I'm not saying this to be combative -- it's all publicly stated.

The only combative thing here is using the word "cult" to describe a mainstream religion, and even that is because people get offended by that rendering rather than it not being the case.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

Maybe religious people hate public education because it is different programming than they offer?