14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

[moonbladem]

Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord-all on the state taxpayers' dime.

Comments

[sakuraberries]

the sheer stupidity of all these is infuriating. and the fact that kids are being indoctrinated with this shit in school just makes it even more so.

[wingstar102]

I agree. And I think reading these "facts" lowered my IQ by a lot. Gah! I think I may end up home-school my son just so that he's not brainwashed by this crap. Just... Ick.

[perthro]

Teach him critical thinking as early as possible, and you may not have to do so much of the teaching. I was pretty self-oriented by 6th grade, dropped out in 7th grade, and basically manipulated the school systems' dual-enrollment program to get the state to pay for my testing while teaching myself everything but math at home. Math was learned at school still, since I'm really bad at it, which basically qualified me to take state tests for free. *So* if there's a subject you don't know well, or one he can't teach himself easily, see about your counties' dual-enrollment process, and do the rest yourself!

[wingstar102]

Sounds like the way to go. Son is only three right now, so I've got time to plan a curriculum, but I will definitely keep your comment in mind as I do. But, at least I hope, that the public school system will be way improved before then. Thanks!

[tiddlywinks103]

*Flips table*

WTEverlovingFUCK?!?!?!?!? How is this legal? How are these fucking bigots allowed to get away with this??!? Vote. Them. OUT!!

I just...I can't. The racism, the sexism, the ethnocentrism, the abject ignorance...! Nothing is right, everything is wrong. If a society is only as great as its lowest member, than our whole educational system is so totally broken and burned to dust.

[flcadam]

Interesting read as I'm wrapping up an assignment for my Moral Theology of the Marketplace class. While my class is pretty interesting, every once in awhile I stumble upon passages from the text like this:

"From a Christian perspective, technology must be critically evaluated and not judged by its internal logic.... To be sure, Christian reflection does not have to be "technophobic," or "neo-Luddite" in nature. In fact, in their proper place, technological innovations can be viewed as wondrous gifts of the Creator." - Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics, 2nd ed., Zondervan, 2004

Now off to learn the about the biblical perspective on environmental stewardship. Two more days 'till finals...

[freuen]

That actually sounds like an interesting class. Do you mind if I ask where you are taking it?

/fellow religion student

[flcadam]

St. John's University - it's Catholic school. So far I've taken introductory theology and Christian metaphysics, but nothing too heavy yet. Unlike the passages in this story, our course actually has a liberal outlook. The readings start off by exploring the foundations for social and economic justice set in the Old and New Testament and then we apply these principles to different areas of business.

I think the above examples are kind of sad because they give the false impression that Christianity has to be divorced from intellectual endeavors, which isn't the case.

[freuen]

St. John's is Vincentian right? It doesn't surprise me that theology course taught by Vincentians, or at the very least at a Vincentian institution, would have a somewhat liberal outlook.

I agree that Christianity doesn't have to be divorced from intellectual endeavors. Unfortunately, the extent to which politics and religion have become entwined in the United States makes said endeavors fraught with political implications and consequences.

[mentalguru]

At first I was 'meh' when I read the first two, because honestly it didn't surprise me (though as someone who studied biology they did tick me off) but when I read 3... I did a literal double take. Jesus Christ. The messing with science- both evolutionary and environmental didn't shock me at all but that did. Heck even on some level neither does the talking smack about certain authors or even the fact they try to push the idea of most slave owners being hunky dorey (I have heard these things online before so yeah). Somehow that and the KKK thing made me want to throw myself physically from my laptop in shock. Though I feel I shouldn't be shocked.

This is a tea partier's wet dream from what I remember in terms of educational lesson plans (except apparently they use tax payers money at all)- didn't they want something along the lines of not making a big deal out of slavery and such?

It's utterly disgusting and I feel ill. If you teach these lies you do not deserve public funding. At all. You shouldn't exist in the first place but FUCK

[othellia]

Okay I was expecting the bad science and homophobia, but THE FUCK IS THIS RACIST SHIT?!

[havok_for_god]

Seriously!!! Totally expected humans riding dinosaurs to church, but now slaves were treated well by their kindly OWNERS? What in the actual fuck??

[bestdaywelived]

It's one of the verses following Titus 2.