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Using our tax dollars to make kids ignorant


It would be better to teach them nothing than to teach them this garbage, and they're doing it with tax dollars.

Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism

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

By Zack Kopplin
Jan. 16. 2014


It isn't just creationism. They're lying about evolution, lying about vaccines, lying about American history, lying about world history, lying about civil rights movements, and lying when they claim they're trying to teach critical thinking.

The article is 3 pages long, but here are some highlights...

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.


Science isn’t the only target of the religious right. The movement also undermines the study of history.

[...]

A section on World War II suggests that Japan’s military aggression was led by the samurai. They write, “Following World War I, Japan attempted to solve its economic and social problems by military means. The Samurai, a group promoting a military approach to create a vast Japanese empire in Asia, wanted to expand Japan’s influence along the Chinese mainland including many Pacific Islands.”

I asked one of my former professors about this. Rich Smith, an East Asia scholar at Rice University, said, “There were no samurai in Japan after WWI; the samurai class was effectively abolished in 1876, after the Meiji Restoration in 1868.”


When discussing stem cells, it claims President George W. Bush banned stem-cell research because it was done “primarily with the cells from aborted babies.” The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine debunks this on its website: “A common misconception is that the cells can come from aborted fetuses, which is in fact not possible.”


One of Responsive Ed’s schools, Founders Classical Academy in Lewisville, Texas, where Responsive Ed is based, uses a curriculum far worse even than the Responsive Ed Knowledge Units. The school teaches American history from A Patriot’s History of the United States. The patriots book is “required reading,” according to Glenn Beck, and it opens with an interview between Rush Limbaugh and the author. It is a book that, as Dave Weigel says, “will make you stupider.”


Instead of being taught that 16th-century Spain had a monarchy, students at Founders Classical Academy are incorrectly learning that it had a form of republican government that was superior to anything that “native peoples” had created.

On the feminist movement, Founders Classical Academy students are taught that feminism “created an entirely new class of females who lacked male financial support and who had to turn to the state as a surrogate husband.”


Responsive Ed has plenty of connections to other fundamentalist right-wing organizations as well. Its website’s “Helpful Information” section directs parents to Focus on the Family under the heading of “Family Support.” Under “Values” it steers students to the Traditional Values Coalition, whose website includes a header that says, “Say NO to Obama. Stop Sharia in America.”


A few days before my visit, writing for Salon, Jonny Scaramanga, an activist who reports on Christian education, had exposed a section of iSchool’s curriculum that blamed Hitler’s atrocities on the theory of evolution.


I was quickly shuffled out, but while I was not allowed to see any curriculum or talk to any teachers, I did get to look into a classroom from the outside and verified that the setup looked exactly like a picture of an Accelerated Christian Education classroom I had seen on Scaramanga’s website.


For years it taught that the Loch Ness monster was real in its attempts to disprove evolution.



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What the !@#$? Sorry for my ignorant type language there, but I'm basically left speechless!
Did the people of that county vote that in...and okay the use of tax dollars for it?

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It's not just one county. It's all over the state, plus two in Arkansas, and an online course for anyone else who wants their kids to grow up ignorant.

They have 33 high schools of premiere bullshit, 22 vista academies (whatever those are), a few other "schools," and an online course of nonsense.


Premiere High Schools

Abilene
Austin
North Austin
Beaumont
Brownsville
Brownwood
Comanche
Dayton
Del Rio
Dublin
El Paso
Fort Worth
Granbury
Huntsville
Irving South
Lanier Laredo
Lewisville
Lindale
Little Rock, AR
Lubbock
Midland
Brenham/Miracle Farm
Mission
New Braunfels
Palmview
Pharr
Richardson
San Antonio
San Juan
Travis
Tyler
Waco


Vista Academies

Amarillo
Austin
Beaumont
Carrollton
Clay Academy
Coppell
Crockett
Dallas
DeSoto
Edinburg
Elgin
Garland
North Garland
Hickory Creek
Humble
Huntsville
Jasper
Pasadena
The Woodlands-Houston
Tyler
Willis
The Foundation School for Autism

Just to interject here, they're most likely spreading anti-vaxxing nonsense at that last one.

Continued...

Classical Academies:

Founders Classical Academy of Leander
Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville
Northwest Arkansas Classical Academy


iSchool High

Amarillo
STEM
University Park
Montgomery-The Woodlands
Flower Mound


Quest Middle Schools

Coppell
Lewisville
Pine Bluff, AR


Texas Virtual Academy

Online


Their website says there is no tuition, so unless they have wealthy dimwits giving them donations, tax dollars are paying for ALL of it. emoticon


Edit because I missed a [*quote] tag.

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That is practically unbelievable! I mean it is just dumbfounding that in this day and age, that could exist! emoticon

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I agree. I'm always dumbfounded when people believe things that go against the facts that I thought everyone knew about.

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After a particularly stupid commercial last night, I turned to hubby and said, "Does it feel like the politicians, the religious factions and media in general are dumbing down America?"
I know...."Dumbing" is not a word....but it's the only way I could describe it.

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If it's not a real word, then why is it becoming more and more popular? emoticon That word has been used more and more in the last few decades. See chart here. emoticon

So, how did your hubby answer that question? emoticon

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He said, "Oh hell yes! Have you heard me talking to the people we work with, represent or our clients. Americans as a whole are dumber!"

And that chart....well, I guess I'm not the only one who thinks like that. emoticon

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I've said and heard that word many times before, and I'm sure I'll say and hear it a lot more in the future.

I'm sure your hubby and I could exchange some stupid customer/client/boss/coworker stories. emoticon

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God made us to be just like Him, so if we're dumb, then God is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side.
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