Reply #23: HEAR! HEAR! I'm not from deep south, but MO and KS [View All]

[PretzelWarrior]

and I've thought a lot about the folks I knew in those tiny towns of Kansas. Some of them were truly scary people in the way they were so close-minded, manipulated by religious dogma, and downright mean to anyone/anything they didn't understand which was quite a wide array of things.

How in the world can we force exposure to more of the world around us for these people? If anything it will get worse with No Child Left Behind because schools will spend even less time/money on increasing children's perspective and world understanding because they're all busy jamming on how to pass the reading/writing/math tests.

Okay, I'm officially depressed again.