Ten percent of American high-schoolers graduate without basic object permanence skills.

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24. I love your reply.

I started school in like 1953-4 (who can remember which) in Detroit (yes, in the city).

We had all the stuff you mentioned. In 1963-4, I had BSCS Biology in 10th grade at Cooley High School with Mr. Lockett (the only black teacher in the school -- but he was a Cracker Jack, the best of the best). We learned the synthesis of glucose to DNA until we could recite it in our sleep. We did all sorts of biological experiments. And yes, evolution was the primary focus of the curriculum.

The USA has lost its edge in science at the K-12 level thanks to ignorant, uneducated religious morons who increasingly are making the decisions.

If we do not coagulate our defication and take these douche bags on, I fear our country, and our world, will be lost in a dark age of fundementalist religion, post modernist obscurantism, and mystical woo woo.

We have to fight it. But it's like herding fucking cats, or wacking moles.


Excuse me. Benny Hinn is on TV. I have to get a boil on my ass healed. And PBS has a program during their pledge break that promises to balance my chakra. I think it's Deepak Chakra... Er, Chopra.

I gotta go.