This is also the kind of textbook which are sometimes paid for with tax dollars for placement in charter and private school across the country.
And if the Republicans have their way, we will see many more just like it.
We need to stand up and fight for our children's education.
We all need to stand up and call it what it is: "a LIE".
ReplyDeleteInteresting, but why no links/specific sourcing?
ReplyDeleteIt was posted on Reddit by the teacher, who claims he skips the parts of the textbook which preach instead of teach.
DeleteBecause of course men live until they're 900 years old. Some men.
ReplyDeleteMcConnell, unfortunately.
DeleteBalzafiar: Maybe Grimes will get an Aiken and McConnell will take a fall the night before the election.
DeleteJust wait until the kids who are "taught" this way grow up to compete in the global marketplace with their contemporaries in Europe, Japan, Russia, China, etc. who had real science educations unmarred by this kind of nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThey'll blame the gubmint for not providing them with anything better than minimum wage jobs.
DeleteAnd then they'll vote for politicians who refuse to raise the minimum wage while raising their taxes to pay for some more corporate welfare and tax breaks for the wealthy.
Back in the day when we were battling our local county school super over the right to homeschool our kids, we temporarily compromised by enrolling in a Christian school. The school used the ACE curriculum, & I distinctly remember my 6th grade son's Science booklet regarding the age of the Earth. It said something to the effect that there were many scientific theories about how old the Earth is. No one really knew for sure, but for the sake of this lesson, they were going to use the scriptural 6-day theory, with each day represented by 1000 years.
ReplyDeleteI was both surprised & impressed that they were not insisting on biblical purity but were willing to acknowledge other possibilities. Of course, this was over 25 years ago, so I'm sure the text has now been changed.
"I was both surprised & impressed that they were not insisting on biblical purity but were willing to acknowledge other possibilities."
DeleteExcuse me? The biblical crap is just that: CRAP! There is NOTHIG about it that is scientific and if you were surprised and impressed, it doesn't take much to do so, does it?
And if you WERE surprised and impressed, you are part of the problem!
I sincerely hope your children learned REAL science later on!
Yeah and if you go by this stupid stuff, Noah was 500 hundred years old before he even had children. They are stealing all our public education money. for their own enrichment. They don't care if it's lies. Everybody lies now, how come the bible says thou shalt not lie, I have a real problem with liars, people who try to fool others . The truth will set you free.
ReplyDeleteAnd when our workforce is laden with Liberty U graduates and we are unable to compete with the world market, will we remain an exceptional nation full of hairdressers and skin school technicians, and women who quit five colleges to finally, perhaps gain a degree at one you've never heard of and aim for the second highest office in the land?
ReplyDeleteSo I can put a rib in the ground, as the truthful Bible says, and get another person
ReplyDeleteJust had a store clerk charge me full price for some sale items. When challenged he said "it just comes out that way". The people at the customer service desk seemed equally puzzled.
ReplyDeleteI'd like children to learn science and literature and history and hygiene and music and art and so much more. But mathematics education in the United States is a disgrace. My state's children did worse than kids in Turkey at 32 in the rankings.
See this BBC article "US 'in denial' over poor maths standards' to see whether your state did better. Only Massachusetts was in the top 6 compared to other countries.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27442541
That's what happens when you have publishing mega-corporations and educational researchers with no classroom experience creating math curricula.
DeleteTeach the kids five different ways to do a division problem, but never give them enough time to really learn ANY of those five ways before you're off and running to the next topic. In my state, there is not nearly enough time built into the curriculum timeline to allow the students to thoroughly absorb any of the skills they're taught.
Practice and repetition are critical to learning basic math computation but are not considered as important as understanding concepts. Concepts are great and having a strong number sense IS important, but if you're in Home Depot trying to figure out how many floor tiles you need for your kitchen, basic traditional computation will get you an answer much faster and more accurately than drawing an array or an area model.
Thanks for the link. It speaks volumes about the state of education in our country, and this just covers math!
DeleteUnless you go into a field involving science and physics, who cares?
ReplyDelete@ 9:05
DeleteUh, physics IS science! and if you DON'T care, then you are one of the reasons these idiots are getting away with this shit.
Learning how to analyze, evaluate, criticize and question are skills needed in all aspects of life.
DeleteBlind acceptance of every word that a bunch of men wrote in a book a couple of thousand years ago prepares you for nothing but a life filled with failure and ignorance.
I care, especially when my tax dollars are used to teach this balogna. I care when I review resumes and interview people for jobs they aren't qualified to do. I care when they can't write a paragraph without using computer emoticons, dotting their "i"s with little hearts, or use patterned or colored papers and inks to make their padded resume's stand out. We've hired people from fields that didn't apply to their jobs because we noticed they're smart, quick learners and can quickly be trained,
DeleteWho would be hired with that school's credentials? Have you tried finding a job that doesn't use science and/or physics, and that can actually pay enough to live on? Fishing, hunting, forestry use them. Hamburger establishments, deliveries, florists use them. Ads, videos, and trolls use them. I don't see Evangelicals, Protestants, Catholic's use them, unless it's their upper echelon's pay scales.
ReplyDeleteTeachers at religious, private and some charter schools don't have to have credentials. They may not even have to have college degrees. They don't have to meet the same standards as public schools when it comes to hiring. There could be a sex offender or parolee working at a private school. Their "teachers" don't even have to have any training or education in the field they are teaching. So your physical education graduate could be teaching the calculus course.
DeleteThis is the primary problem with charter schools, private schools, religious schools and home schooling. You've got amateurs running the show and high school graduates (or not even) trying to teach concepts they themselves don't understand.
These "folks" who buy into this bullshit scream "persecution" when little johnny can't get into college nor find a job that bends over backward to accommodate his religious beliefs.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what their stance is, if, say a Muslim unrolls a prayer rug and prays to Allah? Or a person of the Jewish Faith and Hebrew traditions wears a prayer shawl or refuses to shave?
I wonder if they'd recognize what "Jesus" may really have looked like? (Darker pigmented skin and Arab features?
I'll never forget this woman who attended the same college I did. She said the only motivation for education beyond high school for women was to find a man to marry, someone to support her and how ever many kids God sends her.