Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism

[DonViejo]

An investigation into charter schools’ dishonest and unconstitutional science, history, and “values” lessons.

By Zack Kopplin

When public-school students enrolled in Texas’ largest charter program open their biology workbooks, they will read that the fossil record is “sketchy.” That evolution is “dogma” and an “unproved theory” with no experimental basis. They will be told that leading scientists dispute the mechanisms of evolution and the age of the Earth. These are all lies.

The more than 17,000 students in the Responsive Education Solutions charter system will learn in their history classes that some residents of the Philippines were “pagans in various levels of civilization.” They’ll read in a history textbook that feminism forced women to turn to the government as a “surrogate husband.”

Responsive Ed has a secular veneer and is funded by public money, but it has been connected from its inception to the creationist movement and to far-right fundamentalists who seek to undermine the separation of church and state.

Infiltrating and subverting the charter-school movement has allowed Responsive Ed to carry out its religious agenda—and it is succeeding. Operating more than 65 campuses in Texas, Arkansas, and Indiana, Responsive Ed receives more than $82 million in taxpayer money annually, and it is expanding, with 20 more Texas campuses opening in 2014.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=a1e8a1c6b6&mc_eid=7a8b58c8c3

[onehandle]

1. 'Job creators' should take note and avoid job candidates from Texas in about 10 years or so.

Texas is creating a generation of idiots.

[Xyzse]

3. I think they are doing that to give more credence to the idea that they have to

Outsource work since nobody here is competent enough or have the experience for the job.

Sad.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. We have lots of practice, sadly. nt

[Wait Wut]

2. That was a pretty horrifying read.

Everyone needs to read the entire article.

[rgbecker]

5. In the middle east they call these schools Madrasas.

and they are potential drone targets.

[kairos12]

6. Hopefully none of these students go to Med School or become airline pilots with that

disputable law of gravity and all.

[sakabatou]

7. Not again...

Aron Ra's going to have a field day with these folks.