Louisiana: Creationists Get Public School Vouchers
June 27th, 2012I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this, but I actually don’t think it’s any worse than the sludge that’s pumped into the minds of children who are subjected to regular public school. The nuts are running the nuthouses in both camps, if you ask me.
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This would be funny if it weren’t so, well, not funny.
A biology textbook used by a Christian school in Louisiana that will be accepting students with publicly funded vouchers in the fall says that the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland is real. And it isn’t just any monster but a dinosaur — an effort to debunk evolution and bolster creationist theory.
The story, reported in the Scotsman newspaper in Scotland, says that Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake is one of the many Christian schools in the United States that uses these books published by Accelerated Christian Education.
The Biology 1099 edition includes a passage about the Loch Ness Monster that says, in part, according to the newspaper:
“Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.”
Marie Carrier, principal of Eternity Christian Academy, was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that she would like to accept 135 voucher students for next year to join the 38 children already attending the school in grades 1 through 8.
The reason all of this matters now to the public is that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed a law that sets up the largest voucher program of any state in the country. Some 125 private and religious schools from across the state are qualified to participate in the Louisiana Believes program, which gives families public money to pay school tuition for their children.
oh – I don’t think they make time in the curriculum for any recent history at all, much less an official story. My high school required one semester of US history, and they were able to plow through the revolutionary war/constitution, battles of the civil war, WWI, WWII, and culminated with the successful civil rights era, a few segways into the industrial revolution or social lifestyles during the depression. They certainly didn’t cover any version of U.S. intervention in Vietnam, El Salvador and whatever else happened recently.
I think using ‘good teaching’ techniques such as getting students working on projects slows down the material compared with digesting textbooks or watching the teacher narrate powerpoints about George Bush. As a guest scientist at 5th grade classrooms last year, a teacher made me wait for 30 min. Each student had been assigned to do a presentation on one of the states and they had to do Massachusetts and Michigan. It was tedious to watch the slow speeches based on wikipedia entries, but does the teacher have other options to give students an active role and start to learn speaking skills.
You have to have more faith to be an atheist/evolutionist than believe in God and the Creator. There is practically no evidence for the (macro)evolution theory and much of it is linked with fraud.
However, I do think public funds should not be used for education, which should be decentralized, so we can individually decide what we want our children to be taught.
http://www.creationtoday.org/watch-videos/
Unfortunately where I live; it is in the State Constitution that the government actually fund education. So vouchers in my area are the best available option… I don’t care if the Atheists up street want to teach TENS that is great. If the Baptists down the street want to teach that is great.
Freedom isn’t about getting in everybody else’s business.
should have read: If the Baptists down the street want to teach “creationism” that is great.