Neither country is first world. And China may eventually overtake us economically but that doesn’t make it an educated first world country. And of course Jesus didn’t choose the educated as they were way to educated to accept a pretend son of god.
I suppose a teacher has the religious right, nay, a religious obligation, to make life miserable for any student that disagrees with him/her. Offend? Jesus said: "When you pray, do so publicly, and in a loud and obnoxious manner, so you can show all the filthy heathens around you that you are holier than they are".
If they believed in the Jesus character they would do as he said and do their damn praying in private.