Map: Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism.
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A large, publicly funded charter school system in Texas is teaching creationism to its students, Zack Kopplin recently reported in Slate. Creationist teachers don’t even need to be sneaky about it—the Texas state science education standards, as well as recent laws in Louisiana and Tennessee, permit public school teachers to teach “alternatives” to evolution. Meanwhile, in Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, taxpayer money is funding creationist private schools through state tuition voucher or scholarship programs. As the map below illustrates, creationism in schools isn’t restricted to schoolhouses in remote villages where the separation of church and state is considered less sacred. If you live in any of these states, there’s a good chance your tax money is helping to convince some hapless students that evolution (the basis of all modern biological science, supported by everything we know about geology, genetics, paleontology, and other fields) is some sort of highly contested scientific hypothesis as credible as “God did it.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html
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2. Florida Christian School Tells Children Atheists Don’t Understand Gravity Because God Did It
http://aattp.org/florida-christian-school-tells-children-atheists-dont-understand-gravity-because-god-did-it/
John Prager
January 25, 2014
As the ignorance-fueled battle between the extreme right, who feel that little things like facts should not interfere with their beliefs, and those who possess a minimal amount of scientific knowledge heats up across the country we would like to step into the “evil, anti-Christian, anti-God time machine” and remind everyone of that time in 2011 when a Kentucky school superintendent sent a hilarious letter to the commissioner of education demanding that the evil, godless false belief known as “evolution” be dropped in schools in favor of the more reasonable “I Dream of Jeannie” method of creation.
Not only was his initial letter hilariously born of a misinformed and completely ignorant failure to understand so much as what certain scientific terms mean, but the response was the most polite “smackdown” that could have possibly been sent.
read more: http://aattp.org/flashback-kentucky-school-superintendents-idiotic-evolution-is-not-a-fact-letter-roasted-by-education-commissioner/
I saw this on Facebook the other day and called my honor role son into the room. He's currently in biology, so I asked.
He laughed his head off and said the kids would think the teacher was insane if he started teaching creationism.
We're in Tennessee, btw.
Just because teachers are "allowed" to teach it doesn't mean that the vast majority are. Most teachers are well-educated and disciplined enough to know how stupid it would be to teach creationism. Give the teachers some credit. Even in "dumb" states, teachers are still better educated than most.
A Louisiana man didn’t think much about the Christian indoctrination that went on in his local schools. Growing up, he experienced it as just a harmless part of the culture. His perceptions on religion changed dramatically when his stepson, a Buddhist with Thai origins, enrolled in the 6th grade at Negreet High in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. What subsequently unfolded at the school has resulted in a lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the parents, Scott and Sharon Lane, and their son, “C.C.”
The teacher insisted the Bible is 100% true, ridiculed the student’s religion.
By the end of C.C.’s first week at Nagreet, he was throwing up every day on the way to school. The couple’s other children reported that the boy was being harassed and humiliated for his religion, and the religious beliefs with which he grew up, by the science teacher, Rita Roark. According to the children, Roark taught that the Bible is “100 percent true,” God created the Earth 6,000 years ago, evolution is not only impossible but a “stupid theory made up by stupid people who don’t want to believe in God.” For good measure, she called the Buddhist religion “stupid” as well.
To show just how appalling this sort of indoctrination is, Scott Lane cited a question that appeared on a science test. The question was:
“ISN’T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Fill in the blank with the only correct answer, of course, which C.C. didn’t know. The answer, an obvious set-up by the teacher, is ‘THE LORD’. After being ridiculed the first time for not knowing the answer, the next time C.C. saw the same question on a test, he put ‘Lord Buddha’. Roark led the classroom in laughing at the boy.
read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/28/bible-belt-lousiana-indoctrinates-bullies-buddhist-student-religion-lawsuit-filed/