abraid - people have tried to set up secular schools, government has blocked it. You aren't allowed.
However, I do sometimes wonder whether the sort of selfish society we live in has rather a lot to do with the decline of shared moral values and teaching those moral values in schools.
By selfish, I mean a spectrum from the 'greed is good' ethos of recent decades, valuing commerce above all else, insisting public services should bow down before the City types who could tell them how to run everything, through to anti-social behaviour and a general lack of respect for each other in public.
When I was a teenager, or younger, I knew damn well if I was misbehaving or appeared to be misbehaving in public, any passing adult would tell me off in no uncertain terms.
Doesn't appear to be the case these days - and there would certainly be strong support from many on MN for any mother starting a thread about 'how DARE someone tell my precious child off'.
I am not saying that Christianity or the CofE is superior to any other religion. And I'm all for challenging anyone who thinks they have a monopoly or claim on the truth. But it is possible that we have lost something as we've lost the broad social consensus about moral standards.
Maybe I'm just becoming an old fart, like the Romans who used to complain about the youth of today (although I'm not really complaining about kids - crappy behaviour in public seems as much an adult problem). But I do think that shared consensus based on being taught about heroes and heroines such as Grace Darling and Florence Nightingale is actually, in retrospect, quite valuable.
(And yes, I know FN is more complicated than the children's story, same way the genetics of eye colour is more complicated than we were taught at school. But you have to teach the basics before you can go onto the complex stuff.)